eXtreme chirped pulse oscillator operating in the nanosecond stretched pulse regime

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4766-4773

  Lee, Shinwook ^a   Mandridis, Dimitrios ^a   Delfyett Jr , Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; SCALABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS;

COMPRESSED PULSES; EXTREME CHIRPED PULSE OSCILLATOR (XCPO); PULSE ENERGY; THETA CAVITY;

PULSE GENERATORS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41649087148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004766     Document Type: Article

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