Seeding of an eleven femtosecond optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier and its Nd 3+ picosecond pump laser from a single broadband Ti:Sapphire oscillator

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-180

  Ishii, Nobuhisa ^a,c,d   Teisset, Catherine Y ^a   Fuji, Takao ^a,c   Köhler, Stefan ^a   Schmid, Karl ^a,b   Veisz, Laszlo ^a,e   Baltuška, Andrius ^a,c,f   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b,g,h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d National Laboratory for High Energy Physics   (Japan)

^e German Physical Society   (Austria)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^h FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Laser amplifiers; Optical oscillators; Optical parametric amplifiers; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

LASER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE OSCILLATOR; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; JITTER; LASER PULSES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; Q SWITCHING; SAPPHIRE; THERMAL EXPANSION;

PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33646707811     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.871930     Document Type: Article

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