Numerical analysis of optical parametric chirped pulse amplification with time delay

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 939-943

  Harimoto, Tetsuo ^a   Yamakawa, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; JITTER; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTIMIZATION; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (OPCPA); PULSE ENERGY; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR OPTICS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 2942724413     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000939     Document Type: Article

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