Calculating characteristics of noncollinear phase matching in uniaxial and biaxial crystals

A method of calculating the characteristics of noncollinear phase matching in both uniaxial and biaxial crystals is presented. Al- though significant work has been done to characterize collinear phase matching and to present many of its applications, noncollinear phase matching also has unique characteristics, leading to several useful ap- plications. The method presented enables calculations of both the collin- ear and noncollinear cases, and enables a far larger set of nonlinear crystals and configurations to be studied. © 2000 Society of Photo-Optical In- strumentation Engineers. (S0091-3286(00)02304-7)

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