Trends in chirped pulse optical parametric amplification

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-172

  Dubietis, Audrius ^a,b,c   Butkus, Rytis ^a   Piskarskas, Algis Petras ^a,b,c,d  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c European Physical Society (EPS)   (Lithuania)

^d LITHUANIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Noncollinear parametric amplification; Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Indexed keywords

CYCLE PULSES; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; NONCOLLINEAR PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (OPCPA);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33646673583     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.871962     Document Type: Article

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