Birefringent- and quasi phase-matching with BaMgF4 for vacuum-UV/UV and mid-IR all solid-state lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12362-12378

  Villora, Encarnación G ^a   Shimamura, Kiyoshi ^a   Sumiya, Keiji ^b   Ishibashi, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b High Performance Materials Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DISPERSIONS; FERROELECTRICITY; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAPPHIRE;

ALL SOLID-STATE LASERS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; SELLMEIER COEFFICIENTS; TUNABLE TI:SAPPHIRE LASER; WAVELENGTH DISPERSION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 67749118114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012362     Document Type: Article

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