Ultrafast and octave-spanning optical nonlinearities from strongly phase-mismatched quadratic interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, B B ^a   Chong, A ^b   Wise, F W ^b   Bache, M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECOND RESPONSE; FEW-CYCLE; INFRARED PULSE; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL CYCLES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHASE MISMATCH; PUMP PULSE; PUMP WAVELENGTH; QUADRATIC INTERACTION; SELF-DEFOCUSING; SOLITON COMPRESSION; SUPERCONTINUUM; ULTRA-FAST; ULTRAFAST APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR RESPONSE;

OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84864208882     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.043902     Document Type: Article

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