Angularly-dispersed optical parametric amplification of optical pulses with one-octave bandwidth toward monocycle regime

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18345-18353

  Yamane, K ^a   Tanigawa, T ^a   Sekikawa, T ^a   Yamashita, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DOUBLE PASS; GAIN BANDWIDTH; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; OCTAVE BANDWIDTHS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PUMP APPROXIMATION; PUMP PULSE; SEED PULSE;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 55349111837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018345     Document Type: Article

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