High energy femtosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification system with adaptive phase control

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5813-5821

  He, F ^a   Hung, H S S ^a   Price, J H V ^a   Daga, N K ^a   Naz, N ^a   Prawiharjo, J ^a   Hanna, D C ^a   Shepherd, D P ^a   Richardson, D J ^a   Dawson, J W ^b   Siders, C W ^b   Barty, C P J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AMPLIFICATION; AUTOCORRELATION; LIGHT MODULATION; PHASE CONTROL; PHASE MODULATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COMPRESSOR TECHNOLOGIES; PHASE DISTORTION; RESIDUAL DISPERSION; ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE PHASE CONTROL; AUTO CORRELATION; CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM; CONTROL LOOP; ENERGY; FEMTOSECONDS; HIGH QUALITY; SPECTRAL PHASIS; YB-FIBER;

ULTRASHORT PULSES; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

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

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

EID: 42149194349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005813     Document Type: Article

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