Phase distortions of femtosecond pulses generated in multilayer second order nonlinear media
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Knoesen, A.; Sidick, E.; Dienes, A.; Yankelevich, D.R.; Hill, R.
- Source
- Proceedings of LEOS '93 LEOS '93 Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE. :302-303 1993
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Nonlinear distortion
Phase distortion
Pulse generation
Nonhomogeneous media
Optical pulse generation
Absorption
Ultrafast optics
Optical pulses
Optical distortion
Optical harmonic generation
- Language
Minimizing pulse-spreading caused by group velocity mismatch demands structures that achieve large conversion efficiency with a short interaction length. Optimized femtosecond-pulse generation in quasi-phase-matched thin-film structures will be discussed.ETX