Broadband optical parametric amplifier using chirped quasi-phase-matched gratings

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, CLEO/QELS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Charbonneau Lefort, M ^a   Schober, A M ^a   Afeyan, B ^b   Fejer, M M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POLYMATH RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; MATCHED GRATINGS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE-MATCHING; WIDE BANDWIDTHS;

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTRON OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC DEVICES; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 55649124623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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