Highly efficient four-wave parametric amplification in transparent bulk Kerr medium

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11126-11132

  Dubietis, A ^a   Tamosauskas G ^a   Polesana, P ^a   Valiulis, G ^a   Valtna, H ^a   Faccio, D ^b   Di Trapani, P ^a   Piskarskas, A ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOLITONS;

PHASE-MATCHING CONFIGURATION; ULTRASHORT PULSED LASER BEAM;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34548427466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011126     Document Type: Article

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