Toward a terawatt-scale sub-10-fs laser technology

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 414-419

  Nisoli, M ^b   Stagira, S ^b   De Silvestri, S ^b   Svelto, O ^b   Sartania, S ^c   Cheng, Z ^c   Tempea, Gabriel ^c   Spielmann, Christian ^c   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Pulse compression

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TECHNOLOGY;

FEMTOSECOND LASER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032024454     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686749     Document Type: Article

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