Few-cycle femtosecond field synthesizer

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17410-17419

  Rausch, Stefan ^a,b   Binhammer, Thomas ^a,c   Harth, Anne ^a,b   Kärtner, Franz X ^d   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,e  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c Laser Quantum GmbH   (Germany)

^d USA   (United States)

^e LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; SAPPHIRE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COHERENT CONTROL; FIELD SENSITIVES; PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY; PULSE CHARACTERIZATION; PULSE SEQUENCE; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; ULTRABROAD SPECTRUM; VERSATILE TOOLS;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 55349116423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017410     Document Type: Article

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