Femtosecond laser oscillators for high-field science

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 599-604

  Sudmeyer T ^a   Marchese, S V ^a   Hashimoto, S ^a   Baer, C R E ^a   Gingras, G ^b   Witzel, B ^b   Keller, U ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; FEMTOSECOND LASER OSCILLATORS; LASER OSCILLATORS; REPETITION RATE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS; STATE OF THE ART; THIN-DISK LASERS;

EXPERIMENTS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 53349100158     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.194     Document Type: Article

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