Optical pulse compression to 5 fs at a 1-MHz repetition rate

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 102-104

  Baltuška, Andrius ^a   Wei, Zhiyi ^a   Pshenichnikov, Maxim S ^a   Wiersma, Douwe A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000852826     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.000102     Document Type: Article

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