Ultrabroadband noncollinear optical parametric amplification with LBO crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18863-18868

  Zhao, Baozhen ^a,b   Jiang, Yongliang ^a,b   Sueda, Keiich ^b   Miyanaga, Noriaki ^b   Kobayashi, Takayoshi ^a,b,c,d  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CHIRP MODULATION; LASER OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BROADBAND AMPLIFICATION; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTAL; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; SAPPHIRE PLATES; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56149126891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018863     Document Type: Article

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