Fiber laser pumped high average power single-cycle THz pulse source

2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO/QELS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hoffmann, M C ^a   Yeh, K L ^a   Hwang, H Y ^a   Sosnowski, T ^b   Hebung, J ^a,c   Nelson, Keith A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Clark MXR Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON OPTICS; FIBER LASERS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; ELECTRO-OPTICS; LASER SCIENCE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 51349122317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2008.4551246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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