High peak power Ti:sapphire lasers: Temporal contrast and spectral narrowing issues

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5975, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Kalashnikov, M P ^a   Osvay, K ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Ti:sapphire lasers

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; TI:SAPPHIRE LASERS;

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 33645052468     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.675540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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