Design principles for ultrafast thin-disk regenerative amplifiers without conventional stretcher

2005 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 13-15

  Nickel, Detlef ^a   Stolzenburg, Christian ^a   Beyertt, Angelika ^a   Giesen, Adolf ^a   Butze, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

REPETITION RATES; THIN-DISK AMPLIFIERS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 30844471565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2005.201660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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