90 mJ parametric chirped pulse amplification of 10 fs pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 12822-12827

  Tavella, Franz ^a   Marcinkevičius, Andrius ^a   Kraus, Ferenc ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAPPHIRE;

AMPLIFIED BEAM; CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL QUALITY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 33845800186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012822     Document Type: Article

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