A novel multipass scheme for enhancement of second harmonic generation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22692-22697

  Harimoto, Tetsuo ^a   Yo, Boku ^a   Uchida, Kosuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING;

AZIMUTH ANGLES; BORATE CRYSTALS; CRYSTAL SURFACES; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; MULTI-PASS; ND:YVO4 LASER; NON-COLLINEAR PHASE-MATCHING; PHASE MATCHING ANGLE; Q-SWITCHED; SECOND-HARMONIC;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 80755143333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022692     Document Type: Article

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