Investigation of a grating-based stretcher/compressor for carrier-envelope phase stabilized fs pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3493-3499

  Thomann, Isabell ^a   Gagnon, Etienne ^a   Jones, R Jason ^a   Sandhu, Arvinder S ^a   Lytle, Amy ^a   Anderson, Ryan ^a   Ye, Jun ^a   Murnane, Margaret ^a   Kapteyn, Henry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CARRIER ENVELOPE PHASE (CEP); FEMTOSECOND PULSES; PHASE STABILITY; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 4644276637     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003493     Document Type: Article

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