Octave wide tunable UV-pumped NOPA: Pulses down to 20 fs at 0.5 MHz repetition rate

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5746-5756

  Homann, C ^a   Schriever, C ^a   Baum, P ^a   Riedle, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER TUNING; OPTICAL PUMPING; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ENERGY STABILITY; NONCOLLINEAR PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; RANDOM PHASE JITTERS;

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 42149114067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005746     Document Type: Article

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