Optical cherenkov radiation by cascaded nonlinear interaction: An efficient source of few-cycle energetic near- to mid-ir pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22557-22562

  Bache, M ^a   Bang, O ^a   Zhou, B B ^a   Moses, J ^b   Wise, F W ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLITONS;

CHERENKOV; CHERENKOV RADIATIONS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; GAUSSIAN PULSE SHAPES; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; ULTRA-FAST;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 80755168289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022557     Document Type: Article

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