Ultra-broadband chirped-pulse optical parametric amplifier with angularly dispersed beams

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 518-530

  Arisholm, Gunnar ^a   Biegert, Jens ^b   Schlup, Philip ^b   Hauri, Christoph P ^b   Keller, Ursula ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

GAIN BANDWIDTH; SIGNAL BEAMS; THREE-WAVE INTERACTIONS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 2942709832     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000518     Document Type: Article

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