Frequency conversion of Ti:sapphire-based femtosecond laser systems to the 200-nm spectral region using nonlinear optical crystals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1532-1542

  Petrov, Valentin ^a,e   Rotermund, Fabian ^a   Noack, Frank ^a,e   Ringling, Jens ^b,e,f   Kittelmann, Olaf ^c,g,h,i   Komatsu, Ryuichi ^d  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^c CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h Center for Science and Technology   (Germany)

ⁱ Ophthal Instrum Div of Carl Zeiss   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER PULSES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASER; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; ULTRAVIOLET GENERATION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0033225452     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.814995     Document Type: Article

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