Type-I cascaded quadratic soliton compression in lithium niobate: Compressing femtosecond pulses from high-power fiber lasers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Bache, Morten ^a   Wise, Frank W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LENGTH; CUBIC MATERIALS; FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; GROUP VELOCITIES; HIGH POWER FIBER LASERS; HIGH-POWER; I-PHASE; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NON-LOCAL EFFECT; NONSTATIONARY; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OUTPUT PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE QUALITY; QUADRATIC SOLITONS; RED-SHIFTED; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SECOND HARMONICS; SHORT PULSE; SPATIAL WALK-OFF;

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLITONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77952404213     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053815     Document Type: Article

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