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Manuscript Title: A new algorithm for fast simulation of optical spectra generated in a nonlinear media
Authors: Vladislav Beskrovnyy, Pascal Baldi
Program title: OPFSpectraFinder
Catalogue identifier: ADTK
Journal reference: Comput. Phys. Commun. 160(2004)204
Programming language: MATLAB 6.0.
Computer: Intel Pentium, SUN HPC3500.
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000, Unix Solaris 7.0.
Number of processors used: 1
RAM: 256 M (the total computer memory)
Keywords: Computer algorithms, MATLAB, Matrix exponential, Linear differential equations, Quantum optics, Nonlinear optics, Periodically-poled media.
PACS: 02.60.Jh, 07.05.Tp, 42.50.-p, 42.65.-k.
Classification: 2.2.

Nature of problem:
Obtaining the form of optical spectra of light generated in the process of optical parametric fluorescence in a periodically poled quadratically nonlinear medium [1]

Solution method:
Linearization of the set of nonlinear equations, obtaining the set of equations with constant coefficients, finding the solution as the matrix exponential

Restrictions:
None

Running time:
80 seconds for obtaining the data for data set by default in the files submitted on a PC mentioned above

References:
[1] V. Beskrovnyy, P. Baldi, Optical parametric fluorescence spectra in periodically poled media, Optics Express 10 (2002) 990