Optimization of chirped mirrors

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2002, Pages 6514-6520

  Yakovlev, Vladislav ^a,b   Tempea, Gabriel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; LASER APPLICATIONS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

CHIRPED MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0037145460     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006514     Document Type: Article

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