Generation of Fourier-transform-limited 35-ns pulses with a ramp-hold-fire seeding technique in a Ti: Sapphire laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3046-3050

  Walther, Thomas ^a   Larsen, Matthew P ^a,b   Fry, Edward S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CVI Laser Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; RESONANCE; SAPPHIRE; SOLID STATE LASERS;

INJECTION SEEDING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0038500961     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003046     Document Type: Article

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