Reduction of fast carrier-envelope phase jitter in femtosecond laser amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9758-9763

  Moon, E ^a   Li, Chengquan ^a   Duan, Zuoliang ^a   Tackett, J ^a   Corwin, K L ^a   Washburn, B R ^a   Changei, Zenghu ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

F-TO-2F INTERFEROMETER; FEMTOSECOND LASER OSCILLATOR; PHASE NOISE;

JITTER;

EID: 33750296877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009758     Document Type: Article

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