Optimisation of high average power optical parametric generation using a photonic crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19724-19733

  Sloanes, Trefor ^a,b   McEwan, Ken ^b   Lowans, Brian ^c   Michaille, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CORE DIMENSION; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC GENERATION; PARAMETRIC GENERATION; PARAMETRIC WAVELENGTH CONVERSIONS; SMALL VARIATIONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 56749096819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019724     Document Type: Article

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