High-contrast, high-intensity laser pulse generation using a nonlinear preamplifier in a Ti:sapphire laser system

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 645-647

  Kiriyama, Hiromitsu ^a   Mori, Michiaki ^a   Nakai, Yoshiki ^a   Shimomura, Takuya ^a   Tanoue, Manabu ^a   Akutsu, Atushi ^a   Kondo, Shuji ^a   Kanazawa, Shuhei ^a   Okada, Hajime ^a   Motomura, Tomohiro ^a   Daido, Hiroyuki ^a   Kimura, Toyoaki ^a   Tajima, Toshiki ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PREAMPLIFIER; SAPPHIRE LASER SYSTEM;

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSE GENERATORS; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 42449096278     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.000645     Document Type: Article

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