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Widely Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) Based on PCF

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Ultra-Broadly Tunable Light Sources Based on the Nonlinear Effects in Photonic Crystal Fibers

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Not long after the laser was invented, optical nonlinearity was used to generate high-intensity radiation at new wavelength. In 1965, Wang and Racette discovered that new wavelength laser can be generated by two beams of light transmitted in a nonlinear crystal.

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Zhang, L. (2016). Widely Tunable Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) Based on PCF. In: Ultra-Broadly Tunable Light Sources Based on the Nonlinear Effects in Photonic Crystal Fibers. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48360-2_4

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