Controlled waveforms on the single-cycle scale from a femtosecond oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9739-9745

  Rausch, Stefan ^a,b   Binhammer, Thomas ^a,c   Harth, Anne ^a,b   Kim, Jungwon ^d   Ell, Richard ^d   Kärtner, Franz X ^d   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c VENTEON Femtosecond Laser Technologies   (Germany)

^d USA   (United States)

^e LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; ELECTRIC PULSE; FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; PHASE STABILIZATION; PULSE DURATIONS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS;

SAPPHIRE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 46149114630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009739     Document Type: Article

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