Generation of narrow-bandwidth tunable picosecond pulses by difference-frequency mixing of stretched pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1561-1565

  Veitas, G ^a   Danielius, R ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PUMPING (LASER); SILVER COMPOUNDS;

BARIUM BORATE; DIFFERENCE-FREQUENCY MIXING; GROUP-VELOCITY MISMATCH;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 4243316864     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.001561     Document Type: Article

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