0.3% Energy stability, 100-millijoule-class, Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse eight-pass amplification system

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14875-14881

  Tokita, Shigeki ^a   Hashida, Masaki ^a   Masuno, Shinichiro ^a   Namba, Shin ^a   Sakabe, Shuji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CHIRP MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHIRPED PULSE; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY STABILITY; HIGHLY STABLES; PASSIVE STABILIZATION; PULSE ENERGIES; PUMP ENERGIES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

ALUMINUM OXIDE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 51849148466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014875     Document Type: Article

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