Broad-spectrum neodymium-doped laser glasses for high-energy chirped-pulse amplification

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4813-4819

  Hays, Greg R ^a   Gaul, Erhard W ^a   Martinez, Mikael D ^a   Ditmire, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; LASER PULSES;

LASER GLASSES; LASER SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL SHAPING;

GLASS;

EID: 34548572403     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004813     Document Type: Article

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