High repetition rate fiber amplifier pumped sub-20 fs optical parametric amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16729-16736

  Rothhardt, J ^a   Hadrich S ^a   Schimpf, D N ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Tunnermann A ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HIGH REPETITION RATES; NONCOLLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER SYSTEM (NOPA); SOLITON GENERATION;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 37149047066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016729     Document Type: Article

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