Generation and amplification of tunable multicolored femtosecond laser pulses by using cascaded four wave mixing in transparent bulk media

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4296-4341

  Liu, Jun ^a,b   Kobayashi, Takayoshi ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFWM; Femtosecond spectroscopy; FOPA; Pulse compression; Tunable laser pulse; XPM

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND CALCULATIONS; CASCADED FOUR-WAVE MIXING; CFWM; FEMTOSECOND SPECTROSCOPY; FOPA; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; XPM;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE COMPRESSION; SAPPHIRE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 77953513707     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100504296     Document Type: Review

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