Seeded femtosecond optical parametric amplification in the mid-infrared spectral region above 3 μm

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1164-1172

  Petrov, Valentin ^a   Noack, Frank ^a   Stolzenberger, Richard ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Crystal Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Parametric amplification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000337268     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001164     Document Type: Article

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