Ultrabroadband double-chirped mirror pairs for generation of octave spectra

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 882-885

  Kartner F X ^a   Morgner, U ^a   Ell, R ^a   Schibli, T ^a   Fujimoto, J G ^b   Ippen, E P ^b   Scheuer, V ^c   Angelow, G ^c   Tschudi, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Massachusetts Inst of Technology ^*  (United States)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MIRRORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 0037793980     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000882     Document Type: Article

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