Tetragonal Ba2MgGe2O7 - A novel multifunctional optical crystal with numerous manifestations of nonlinear-laser effects: Almost sesqui-octave Stokes and anti-Stokes combs and cascaded χ(3) ↔ χ(2) lasing with involved second and third harmonic generation

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 845-868

  Kaminskii, Alex A ^a   Bohatý, Ladislav ^b   Becker, P ^b   Liebertz, J ^b   Held, P ^b   Eichler, H J ^c   Rhee, H ^c   Hanuza, J ^d,e  

^a SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF LOW TEMPERATURE AND STRUCTURE RESEARCH   (Poland)

^e WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ba2MgGe2O7; Cascaded self frequency doubling; Cascaded self frequency mixing; Cascaded self frequency tripling; Melilites; Non centrosymmetric crystal; Raman laser shifter; Stimulated Raman scattering; Stokes and anti Stokes lasing comb

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249095206     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200810089     Document Type: Review

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