High-power Ti:Sapphire lasers: Temporal contrast and spectral narrowing

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-223

  Kalashnikov, M ^a   Osvay, K ^a,b   Sandner, W ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

High power lasers; Saturation; Spectral narrowing; Temporal contrast

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES; SAPPHIRE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

NEGATIVE-POSITIVE CPA AMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL NARROWING; TEMPORAL CONTRASTS;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 34347360635     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: 1469803X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034607000043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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