Optical Cherenkov radiation in ultrafast cascaded second- harmonic generation
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M. Bache,1,* O. Bang,1 B. B. Zhou,1 J. Moses,2 and F. W. Wise3 1DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 2Optics and Quantum Electronics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA (Received 5 October 2010; published 3 December 2010)
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