Femtosecond-pulse cavity-dumped solid-state oscillator design and application to ultrafast microscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 36, 1999, Pages 7386-7392

  Liau, Yish Hann ^a   Unterreiner, Andreas N ^a   Arnett, David C ^b   Scherer, Norbert F ^a  

^a University of Chicago   (United States)

^b Northwestern College Orance City   (United States)

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EID: 0000318836     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.007386     Document Type: Article

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