High-efficiency, broad band, high-damage threshold high-index gratings for femtosecond pulse compression

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15324-15334

  Canova, Federico ^a   Uteza, Olivier ^b   Chambaret, Jean Paul ^a   Flury, Manuel ^c   Tonchev, Svetlen ^c,d   Fechner, Renate ^e   Parriaux, Olivier ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; MIRRORS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE COMPRESSION; WAVELENGTH;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION; METAL-DIELECTRIC STRUCTURES; POWER LASER MACHINING; TOP-HAT DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY SPECTRA;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 36249003940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015324     Document Type: Article

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