Sub-5-fs visible pulse generation by pulse-front-matched noncollinear optical parametric amplification

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2268-2270

  Shirakawa, A ^a   Sakane, I ^a   Takasaka, M ^b   Kobayashi, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; Q SWITCHED LASERS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

PULSE-FRONT-MATCHED NONCOLLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; ULTRABROADBAND CHIRPED MIRRORS (UBCM);

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0032620590     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123820     Document Type: Article

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