Femtosecond nonlinear frequency conversion based on BiB3O6

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-98

  Petrov, Valentin ^a   Ghotbi, Masood ^a,b   Kokabee, Omid ^b   Esteban Martin, Adolfo ^b   Noack, Frank ^a   Gaydardzhiev, Alexander ^a,c   Nikolov, Ivaylo ^c   Tzankov, Pancho ^a   Buchvarov, Ivan ^c   Miyata, Kentaro ^a,d   Majchrowski, Andrzej ^e   Kityk, Ivan V ^f   Rotermund, Fabian ^a,g   Michalski, Edward ^e   Ebrahim Zadeh, Majid ^h  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^g Ajou University   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

Biaxial nonlinear crystals; Bismuth triborate; Effective nonlinearity; Femtosecond pulses; Monoclinic symmetry; Optical parametric amplifiers; Optical parametric generators; Parametric gain bandwidth; Phase matching; Pulse compression; Second harmonic generation; Spectral acceptance; Synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators; Three wave interactions; White light continuum generation amplification

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH TRIBORATE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; MONOCLINIC SYMMETRY; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC GENERATOR; PARAMETRIC GAIN; PARAMETRIC GAIN BANDWIDTH; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR; THREE-WAVE INTERACTIONS; WHITE LIGHT CONTINUUM GENERATION;

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; BISMUTH; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE MATCHING; PULSE COMPRESSION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 73349093776     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810075     Document Type: Article

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