All-optical tunable group-velocity control of femtosecond pulse by quadratic nonlinear cascading interactions

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 355-361

  Lu, Wenjie ^a   Chen, Yuping ^a   Miu, Lihong ^a   Chen, Xianfeng ^a   Xia, Yuxing ^a   Zeng, Xianglong ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CASCADE CONNECTIONS; CRYSTALS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER TUNING; VELOCITY CONTROL;

DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY GENERATION; GROUP VELOCITY; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NIOBIUM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; OXIDES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38049150757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000355     Document Type: Article

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