Sawtooth grating-assisted phase-matching

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22686-22692

  Sidorenko, Pavel ^a   Kozlov, Maxim ^a   Bahabad, Alon ^b   Popmintchev, Tenio ^b   Murnane, Margaret ^b   Kapteyn, Henry ^b   Cohen, Oren ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MODULATION; PHASE MATCHING;

EFFICIENT METHOD; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; PHASE MISMATCH; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; SAW-TOOTH STRUCTURE;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 78149389146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022686     Document Type: Article

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