Chirped-pulse amplification of ultraviolet femtosecond pulses by use of Ce3+:LiCaAlF6 as a broadband, solid-state gain medium

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 301-303

  Liu, Zhenlin ^a   Kozeki, Toshimasa ^a,c   Suzuki, Yuji ^a,c   Sarukura, Nobuhiko ^a,b,c,d   Shimamura, Kiyoshi ^b   Fukuda, Tsuguo ^b   Hirano, Masahiro ^a   Hosono, Hideo ^a,e  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLID-STATE GAIN MEDIUM;

AMPLIFICATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0003331592     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000301     Document Type: Article

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