Photonics Research, Volume. 3, Issue 5, 210(2015)
Multicolored sideband generation based on cascaded four-wave mixing with the assistance of spectral broadening in multiple thin plates
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Peng Wang, Jun Liu, Fangjia Li, Xiong Shen, Ruxin Li, "Multicolored sideband generation based on cascaded four-wave mixing with the assistance of spectral broadening in multiple thin plates," Photonics Res. 3, 210 (2015)
Category: Nonlinear Optics
Received: Jun. 16, 2015
Accepted: Jul. 14, 2015
Published Online: Jan. 6, 2016
The Author Email: Jun Liu (jliu@siom.ac.cn)