High-order dispersion in chirped-pulse oscillators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4206-4216

  Kalashnikov, Vladimir L ^a   Fernández, Alma ^a   Apolonski, Alexander ^b,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER MODE LOCKING; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

DESTABILIZATION MECHANISMS; PARAMETRICAL INSTABILITY;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41149162820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004206     Document Type: Article

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