Spectral phase transfer to ultrashort UV pulses through four-wave mixing

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16183-16192

  Zuo, P ^a,b   Fuji, T ^a,b,c   Suzuki, T ^a,b,d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MAGNESIUM; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

DEEP ULTRAVIOLET; FS PULSE; MAGNESIUM FLUORIDE; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED PULSE; NONCOLLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR MIXING; PHASE TRANSFER; SECOND HARMONIC PULSE; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77954895907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016183     Document Type: Article

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