Nonlinear Disorder Mapping Through Three-Wave Mixing

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-28

  Pasquazi, Alessia ^a   Morandotti, Roberto ^a   Busacca, Alessandro ^b   Stivala, Salvatore ^b   Assanto, Gaetano ^c  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

image analysis; random quasi phase matching; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC FIELD POLING; FAR-FIELD; FERROELECTRIC CRYSTAL; LITHIUM TANTALATE; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SECOND-HARMONIC SPECTROSCOPY; SPACE RATIO; THREE WAVE MIXING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LITHIUM; PHASE MATCHING;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649284236     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2039866     Document Type: Article

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