Optical parametric generation of high-energy femtosecond pulses in the 1-3μm spectral range using BiB3O6

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6455, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Petrov, Valentin ^a   Ghotbi, Masood ^b   Tzankov, Pancho ^a   Noack, Frank ^a   Nikolov, Ivailo ^c   Buchvarov, Ivan ^c   Ebrahim Zadeh, Majid ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bismuth triborate; Broadband amplification; Femtosecond pulses; Optical parametric amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PUMPING (LASER);

BISMUTH TRIBORATE; BROADBAND AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER (OPA); PHASE MATCHING PROPERTIES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34247377718     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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