Complete spatial and temporal locking in phase-mismatched second-harmonic generation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3141-3147

  Fazio, Eugenio ^a   Pettazzi, Federico ^a,d   Centini, Marco ^a   Chauvet, Mathieu ^b   Belardini, Alessandro ^a   Alonzo, Massimo ^a   Sibilia, Concita ^a   Bertolotti, Mario ^a   Scalora, Michael ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c US Army Research Development and Engineering Command   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT VELOCITY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

EFFECTIVE DISPERSION; INHOMOGENEOUS WAVE EQUATIONS; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; PHASE AND GROUP VELOCITIES; PHASE-LOCKED PULSE; PROPAGATING PULSE; SECOND HARMONIC PULSE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 61549086270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003141     Document Type: Article

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