Diode-pumped Nd:Glass kilohertz regenerative amplifier for subpicosecond microjoule level pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4163-4167

  Braun, Alan ^a   Liu, Xinbing ^a   Mourou, Gerard ^a   Kopf, Daniel ^b   Keller, Ursula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Continuous wave pumping; Laser diode pumping; Nd:glass; Regenerative amplifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006490479     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004163     Document Type: Article

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