Amplified femtosecond pulses from an Er:fiber system: Nonlinear pulse shortening and self-referencing detection of the carrier-envelope phase evolution

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 594-600

  Tauser, Florian ^a   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^a   Zinth, Wolfgang ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FEMTOSECOND PULSES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; SILICON PRISMS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0344324779     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000594     Document Type: Article

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