Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, Volume. 14, Issue 1, 6100308(2016)

Temperature-Insensitive Frequency Conversion by Electro-optic Effect Compensating for Phase Mismatch

Zijian Cui1,2, Dean Liu1, Aihua Yang1,2, Jie Miao1, Junyong Zhang1, and Jianqiang Zhu1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Zijian Cui, Dean Liu, Aihua Yang, Jie Miao, Junyong Zhang, Jianqiang Zhu. Temperature-Insensitive Frequency Conversion by Electro-optic Effect Compensating for Phase Mismatch[J]. Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, 2016, 14(1): 6100308

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    Received: Aug. 20, 2016

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    Published Online: May. 26, 2017

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    DOI:10.1109/jphot.2016.2614912

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