Ultrabroadband optical phenomena in quadratic nonlinear media

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 600-610

  Conforti, M ^a   Baronio, F ^a   De Angelis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

nonlinear crystals; second harmonic generation; Supercontinuum generation

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND PULSE; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR ENVELOPE EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; QUADRATIC NONLINEAR MEDIA; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE EQUATION; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; ULTRA-BROADBAND; ULTRABROADBAND OPTICAL PULSE;

CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER PULSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 79959203900     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2051537     Document Type: Article

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