Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Hafnium-doped lithium-niobate crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14171-14176

  Minzioni, Paolo ^a   Cristiani, Ilaria ^a   Yu, Jin ^a   Parravicini, Jacopo ^a   Kokanyan, Edvard P ^b   Degiorgio, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL RESEARCH   (Armenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HAFNIUM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 35349031754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014171     Document Type: Article

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