Generation of intense femtosecond optical pulses near 3 μm with a kilohertz repetition rate

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1480-1483

  Emmerichs, Uli ^a   Woutersen, Sander ^a   Bakker, Huib J ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Infrared; Parametric generation and amplification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031493062     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001480     Document Type: Article

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