Dynamics of a paired optical vortex generated by second-harmonic generation

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 17796-17804

  Toda, Y ^a   Honda, S ^a   Morita, R ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; VORTEX FLOW;

GOUY PHASE; LAGUERRE GAUSSIAN BEAMS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; OPTICAL VORTICES; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION ANGLES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SEPARATION DISTANCES; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; WALK-OFF;

ROTATION;

BARIUM; BORIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BARIUM; BORATES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 77956380374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017796     Document Type: Article

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