Talk:Optical frequency multiplier

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I have substantially revised the article and suggest that someone adds the following external link (to a page under my control):

http://www.rp-photonics.com/frequency_doubling.html Encyclopedia of laser physics and technology on frequency doubling = second harmonic generation

RPaschotta 13:30, 30 Apr 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reason for renaming

I renamed this article to "be about" the devices as opposed to the physics behind them. This is in keeping with the series of articles on non-linear optics in general. For instance, there is an article on Optical parametric amplifier, not "parametric amplification", and similarily Optical parametric oscillator as opposed to "parametric oscillation".

I certainly don't mean to suggest this is a "better" naming, but it is definitely more uniform. If someone does wish to put these articles under the physics I won't disagree, but I think it's important we make this change to all of the articles to avoid confusion.

Maury 13:24, 7 October 2006 (UTC)