Accurate all-optical synchronization of 1064 nm pulses with 794nm femtosecond pulses for optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2487-2496

  Xu, Shixiang ^a   Zhai, Hui ^a   Wu, Kun ^a   Peng, Yan ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE;

ALL-OPTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER SEEDED NON-COLLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; INTENSE FREQUENCY-DOUBLED TI:SAPPHIRE FEMTOSECOND LASER; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; ULTRA-BROADBAND CHIRPED TI:SAPPHIRE LASER PULSES;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33645057697     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002487     Document Type: Article

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