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Optics Letters

Transient second-harmonic generation with spatially nonuniform nonlinear coefficients

Roberto Buffa

Published Jun 15, 2002• 5 citations
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Abstract

An optimal control approach is used to extend to the regime of pump depletion the idea of using spatially nonuniform nonlinear coefficients to tailor the shapes of optical pulses in a process of transient second-harmonic generation.
DOI
10.1364/ol.27.001058

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