Octave spanning spectra and pulse compression by nondegenerate cascaded four-wave mixing: 2D simulation and experiment
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João L. Silva, Rosa Weigand, Helder M. Crespo, IFIMUP/IN Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Departamento de F́ısica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Ciencias F́ısicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain ∗Corresponding author: [email protected]
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