High visibility pump reconstruction via ultra broadband sum frequency mixing of intense phase-conjugated twin beams

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 12903-12912

  Jedrkiewicz, Ottavia ^a   Blanchet, Jean Luc ^a   Gatti, Alessandra ^b   Brambilla, Enrico ^a   Di Trapani, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b IFN CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PUMPS; VISIBILITY;

ACHROMATIC IMAGING; HIGH GAIN; IDLER BEAMS; NEAR FIELDS; OFF-AXIS PARABOLIC; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; SUM FREQUENCY MIXING; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TWIN BEAMS; ULTRA-BROADBAND; UP-CONVERSION;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959904806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012903     Document Type: Article

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