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Advances in OptoElectronics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 428971, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/428971
Research Article
Noise Analysis of Second-Harmonic Generation in Undoped and MgO-Doped Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate
1Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S4L8, Canada
2Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S4L8, Canada
Received 29 February 2008; Accepted 21 July 2008
Academic Editor: Yalin Lu
Copyright © 2008 Yong Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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