Generation of 10-W average-power, 40-TW peak-power, 24-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire amplifier system

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1790-1794

  Wang, H ^a   Backus, S ^a   Chang, Z ^a   Wagner, R ^a   Kim, K ^a   Wang, X ^a   Umstadter, D ^a   Lei, T ^a   Murnane, M ^a   Kapteyn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0007930680     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.16.001790     Document Type: Article

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