Cascaded third-harmonic generation of ultrashort optical pulses in two-dimensional quasi-phase-matching gratings

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2394-2405

  Fujioka, Nobuhide ^a   Ashihara, Satoshi ^b,c   Ono, Hidenobu ^a   Shimura, Tsutomu ^a   Kuroda, Kazuo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOCUSING; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHASE MATCHING;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING GRATINGS; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36048965340     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002394     Document Type: Article

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