Excitation of two-colored temporal solitons in a segmented quasi-phase-matching structure

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16877-16884

  Zeng, Xianglong ^a   Ashihara, Satoshi ^b,c   Wang, Zijie ^a   Wang, Tingyun ^a   Chen, Yuping ^d   Cha, Byoungsik ^e  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE SHIFT; SOLITONS;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; INTENSITY PROFILES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING; SECOND HARMONIC PULSE; SECOND HARMONICS; TEMPORAL SOLITONS; WAVEVECTOR MISMATCH;

PHASE MATCHING;

EID: 70349224292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016877     Document Type: Article

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