Simultaneous phase matching and internal interference of two second-order nonlinear parametric processes

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11756-11765

  Johnston, Benjamin F ^a   Dekker, Peter ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   Saltiel, Solomon M ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; VECTORS;

NONLINEAR QUADRATIC CRYSTALS; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING (QPM) VECTORS; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR PARAMETRIC PROCESSES; TWO-FREQUENCY DOUBLING PROCESSES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 35348937827     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011756     Document Type: Article

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