Femtosecond second-harmonic generation in AlGaAs Bragg reflection waveguides: Theory and experiment

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1291-1298

  Han, J B ^a   Abolghasem, P ^a   Bijlani, B J ^a   Arjmand, A ^a   Chaitanya Kumar, S ^b   Esteban Martin, A ^b   Ebrahim Zadeh, M ^b,c   Helmy, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPS; REFLECTION; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

ADVERSE EFFECT; AVERAGE POWER; BRAGG REFLECTION WAVEGUIDES; FEMTOSECONDS; GROUP-VELOCITY MISMATCH; IN-PHASE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NONLINEAR PROCESS; OPTIMAL SAMPLES; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; PUMP DEPLETION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SECOND-HARMONIC POWER; SPLIT-STEP FOURIER METHOD; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; TYPE II;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955680946     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001291     Document Type: Article

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