Compact 50-Hz terawatt Ti:sapphire laser for x-ray and nonlinear optical spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5148-5154

  Cheng, Guangjun ^a   Shan, Fang ^a   Freyer, Abhi ^a   Guo, Ting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RAMAN SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAYS;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY;

LASERS;

EID: 0037143962     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005148     Document Type: Article

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