Frequency-doubling in femtosecond laser inscribed periodically-poled potassium titanyl phosphate waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 17146-17150

  Campbell, S ^a   Thomson, R R ^a   Hand, D P ^a   Kar, A K ^a   Reid, D T ^a   Canallas, C ^b   Pasiskevicius, V ^b   Laurell, F ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE CRYSTALS; QUASI-PHASE MATCHING; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 37149053465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017146     Document Type: Article

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