Toward a terawatt-kilohertz repetition-rate laser

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 407-412

  Le Blanc, Catherine ^b   Baubeau, Emmanuel ^b   Salin, François ^b   Squier, Jeff A ^c   Barty, Christopher P J ^a,c   Spielmann, Christian ^d  

^a IEEE

^b LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Broad band amplifiers; Gain control; Lasers; Optical pulse amplifiers; Optical pulse compression; Thermal factors; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DESIGN; GAIN CONTROL; LASER PULSES; PERFORMANCE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

REPETITION RATE;

LASERS;

EID: 0032027684     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686748     Document Type: Article

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