Describing first-order spatio-temporal distortions in ultrashort pulses using normalized parameters

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 242-251

  Gabolde, Pablo ^a   Dongjoo, Lee ^a   Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AMPLIFIED LASER SYSTEM; SPATIAL CHIRP; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33846135051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000242     Document Type: Article

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