Scaling laws for soliton pulse compression by cascaded quadratic nonlinearities

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2752-2762

  Bache, M ^a   Moses, J ^b,c   Wise, F W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORATE MINERALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PULSE COMPRESSION; SCALING LAWS; SOLITONS;

BULK QUADRATIC NONLINEAR MEDIA; CUBIC KERR NONLINEARITY; KERR SOLITON NUMBERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36949025917     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002752     Document Type: Article

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