Programmable femtosecond laser pulses in the ultraviolet

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 866-871

  Hacker, M ^a   Feurer, T ^a   Sauerbrey, R ^a   Lucza, T ^b   Szabo, G ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

SUM-FREQUENCY MIXING (SFM);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0035632493     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000866     Document Type: Article

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