Generation of 5 fs, 0.5 TW pulses focusable to relativistic intensities at 1 kHz

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10684-10689

  Bohman, Samuel ^a,b   Suda, Akira ^a   Kaku, Masanori ^a,c   Nurhuda, Muhammad ^d   Kanal, Takuya ^b   Yamaguchi, Shigeru ^b   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^d BRAWIJAYA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSE COMPRESSION;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; HOLLOW FIBER; PEAK INTENSITY; PULSE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE; RELATIVISTIC INTENSITY; REPETITION RATE; SPOT SIZES;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 47249148848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010684     Document Type: Article

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