Third-harmonic generation via broadband cascading in disordered quadratic nonlinear media

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20117-20123

  Wang, W ^a,b   Roppo, V ^a,c   Kalinowski, K ^a   Kong, Y ^b   Neshev, D N ^a   Cojocaru, C ^c   Trull, J ^c   Vilaseca, R ^c   Staliunas, K ^c,d   Krolikowski, W ^a   Saltiel, S M ^a,e   Kivshar, Yu ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRICITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHASE MATCHING;

EMITTED RADIATION; FERROELECTRIC DOMAINS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PARAMETRIC FREQUENCY CONVERSION; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; QUADRATIC NONLINEAR MEDIA; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED; SECOND ORDERS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70749094710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020117     Document Type: Article

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