Efficient temporal compression of coherent nanosecond pulses in a compact SBS generator-amplifier setup

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 358-366

  Schiemann, Stephan ^a,b,c   Ubachs, Wim ^a,d,e,f   Hogervorst, Wim ^a,g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b University of Kaiserslautern ^*

^c Vrije Universiteit ^*  (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Laser Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Nd:YAG lasers; Optical pulse compression; Pulse compression methods; Pulsed lasers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

LASER SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMPONENT LOSSES; OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 0031097924     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.556004     Document Type: Article

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