Controlling the influence of SPM in fiber-based chirped-pulse amplification systems by using an actively shaped parabolic spectrum

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16945-16953

  Schimpf, Damian N ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION (CPA); GRATING COMPRESSORS; PARABOLIC SPECTRUM;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 37249048159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016945     Document Type: Article

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