Efficient energy extraction below the saturation fluence in a low-gain low-loss regenerative chirped-pulse amplifier

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 421-425

  Biswal, Subrat ^b   Itatani, Jiro ^b   Nees, John ^b   Mourou, Gérard A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Optical pulse amplifiers; Regenerative amplifiers; Ultrafast optics; Ytterbium materials; Ytterbium:glass lasers

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT; OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032028058     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686750     Document Type: Article

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