Dispersion considerations in ultrafast CPA systems

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 430-440

  Fittinghoff, David N ^b   Walker, Barry C ^b,d   Squier, Jeff A ^c   Tóth, Csaba S ^b,e,f,g,h,i   Rose Petruck, Christoph ^{b,j,k,l,m,n,o}   Barty, Christopher P J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^g Research Center of Crete   (Greece)

^h RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Hungarian Physical Society   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^k LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

ⁿ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Optical pulse amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse measurements; Utrafast optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DESIGN; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; MEASUREMENTS; OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

OPTICAL PULSE COMPRESSION;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032023017     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686752     Document Type: Article

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