10 kHz water-cooled Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7528-7536

  Matras, Guillaume ^a,b   Huot, Nicolas ^a   Baubeau, Emmanuel ^c   Audouard, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

^c Laser Solutions Unit   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROMACHINING; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE;

INDUSTRIAL MICROMACHINING APPLICATIONS; LASER GEOMETRY; LASER SYSTEMS; MULTI PASS AMPLIFIERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34250174201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007528     Document Type: Article

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