ASE suppression in a high energy titanium sapphire amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8039-8049

  Ertel, Klaus ^a   Hooker, Chris ^a   Hawkes, Steve J ^a   Parry, Bryn T ^a   Collier, John L ^a  

^a Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; TITANIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TITANIUM;

LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL GAIN; SAPPHIRE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TITANIUM; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE); BEAM HOMOGENIZATION; TI:SAPPHIRE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSVERSE GAIN;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 44649134576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008039     Document Type: Article

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