Laser chirp effect on femtosecond laser filamentation generated for pulse compression

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4465-4470

  Park, Juyun ^a   Lee, Jae Hwan ^a   Nam, Chang Hee ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; PULSE COMPRESSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CHIRPED PULSES; LASER CHIRP EFFECT;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 41649113942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004465     Document Type: Article

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