High-energy diode-pumped Yb:YAG chirped pulse amplifier

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6998, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Siebold, Mathias ^a,b   Wandt, Christoph ^a   Klingebiel, Sandro ^a   Major, Zsuzsanna ^a   Trushin, Sergei ^a   Ahmad, Izhar ^a   Wang, Tie Jun ^a   Hein, Joachim ^b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a   Karsch, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chirped pulse amplification; Diode pumped; Laser amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIODES; GLASS; LASERS; OPTICAL GLASS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

(140.3500) LASERS; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFIERS; CHIRPED PULSES; DIODE-PUMPED; HIGH ENERGIES; MODE-LOCKED; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PICO SECONDS; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP SOURCES; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIERS; SEED PULSES; SMALL SIGNAL GAIN (SSG); SOLID STATES; ULTRA HIGH;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 45149088992     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.780974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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