Automatic time delay optimization between the pump and seed pulses of a broadly tunable femtosecond optical parametric amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2411-2413

  Freysz, Eric ^a   Plantard, Joel ^a   Gillet, Remy ^a   Rassoul, Rysvan Maleck ^a   Grelu, Philippe ^a   Ducasse, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; ERRORS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHOTODIODES; PUMPING (LASER);

GAUSSIAN PULSE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER; TIME DELAY;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032045545     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002411     Document Type: Article

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