Femtosecond regenerative amplification in Cr:forsterite

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3294-3297

  Shcheslavskiy, Vladislav ^a   Noack, Frank ^a   Zhavoronkov, Nickolay ^b  

^a Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy   (United Kingdom)

^b SOLAR TII   (Belarus)

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EID: 0000061738     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003294     Document Type: Article

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