Parasitic lasing suppression in high gain femtosecond peta watt Ti:sapphire amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15335-15341

  Liang, Xiaoyan ^a   Leng, Yuxin ^a   Wang, Cheng ^a   Li, Chuang ^a   Lin, Lihuang ^a   Zhao, Baozhen ^a   Jiang, Yunhua ^a   Lu, Xiaoming ^a   Hu, Minyuan ^a   Zhang, Chunmei ^a   Lu, Haihe ^a   Yin, Dingjun ^a   Jiang, Yongliang ^a   Lu, Xingqiang ^a   Wei, Hui ^a   Zhu, Jianqiang ^a   Li, Ruxin ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLADDING (COATING); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

ACOUSTO-OPTIC PROGRAMMABLE DISPERSIVE FILTER (AOPDF); CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); HIGH GAIN FEMTOSECOND PETA WATT TI:SAPPHIRE AMPLIFIER; PARASITIC LASING SUPPRESSION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36248954012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015335     Document Type: Article

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