Parametric amplification of chirped laser pulses at 911 nm and 1250 nm wavelengths

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4630, Issue , 2002, Pages 135-146

  Freidman, Gennadiy ^a   Andreev, Nikolay ^a   Ginzburg, Vladislav ^a   Katin, Eugeny ^a   Khazanov, Efim ^a   Lozhkarev, Vladimir ^a   Palashov, Oleg ^a   Sergeev, Alexandr ^a   Yakovlev, Ivan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Femtosecond pulses; Frequency chirped pulses; Nonlinear crystals; Optical parametric amplifiers; Wide bandwidth phase matching

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTIMIZATION; TUNING;

CHIRPED LASER PULSES; FEMTOSECOND PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0036407036     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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