Precision control of carrier-envelope phase in grating based chirped pulse amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 11468-11476

  Li, Chengquan ^a   Moon, Eric ^a   Mashiko, Hiroki ^a   Nakamura, Christopher M ^a   Ranitovic, Predrag ^a   Maharjan, Chakra M ^a   Cocke, C Lewis ^a   Chang, Zenghu ^a   Paulus, Gerhard G ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE (CE) PHASE; STRETCHER GRATING; WEDGE PLATES;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33751074678     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011468     Document Type: Article

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