Highly efficient transmission gratings in fused silica for chirped–pulse amplification systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 6934-6938

  Clausnitzer, Tina ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a   Zöllner, Karsten ^a   Zellmer, Holger ^a   Fuchs, Benjamin L ^a   Kley, Ernst Bernhard ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a   Jupé, Marco ^b   Ristau, Detlev ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FUSED SILICA; GOLD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RAMAN SCATTERING; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); OPTICAL DAMAGE RESISTANCE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0344254746     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006934     Document Type: Article

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