Generation of a train of ultrashort pulses from a compact birefringent crystal array

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5142-5146

  Dromey, B ^a   Zepf, M ^a   Landreman, M ^b   O'Keeffe, K ^b   Robinson, T ^b   Hooker, S M ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

COMPACT BIREFRINGENT CRYSTAL ARRAYS; PULSE-SPLITTING PROPERTIES; SINGLE BIREFRINGENT CRYSTALS; ULTRAFAST LASER PULSES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 35448933178     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005142     Document Type: Article

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