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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Optimal control of type I second-harmonic generation with ultrashort laser pulses

Roberto Buffa, Stefano Cavalieri

Published Nov 1, 2000• 11 citations
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Abstract

We apply the optimal control technique to the topic of type I second-harmonic generation with ultrashort laser pulses. We design temporally tailored fundamental-frequency laser pulses that generate, in the regime of pump depletion, temporally symmetric second-harmonic optical pulses.
DOI
10.1364/josab.17.001901

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