Short-pulse generation by saturated KrF laser amplification of a steep Stokes pulse produced by two-step stimulated Brillouin scattering

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1943-1947

  Kuwahara, Kenji ^a   Takahashi, Eiichi ^b   Matsumoto, Yuji ^b   Kato, Susumu ^b   Owadano, Yoshiro ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; GAS LASERS;

STOKES PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0034357709     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001943     Document Type: Article

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