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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Gain Enhancement Due to Transverse Effects in Chirped Quasi-Phase-Matched Optical Parametric Amplifiers

Mathieu Charbonneau-Lefort, Bedros B. Afeyan, M. M. Fejer

Published May 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate transverse effects in chirped QPM gratings such as cascaded phase shifts and non-collinear interactions. We find enhanced growth over a wide bandwidth with gains much larger than in the 1D limit.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2007.4452696

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