Design of a highly stable, high-conversion-efficiency, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system with good beam quality

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2511-2524

  Guardalben, M J ^a   Keegan, J ^a   Waxer, L J ^a   Bagnoud, V ^a   Begishev, I A ^a   Puth, J ^a   Zuegel, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEODYMIUM; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); INTENSITY MODULATION; SINGLE STAGE SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 2942735157     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002511     Document Type: Article

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