Poor man's source for sub 7 fs: A simple route to ultrashort laser pulses and their full characterization

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 18910-18921

  Schmidt, Bruno E ^a   Unrau, Waldemar ^a   Mirabal, Aldo ^a   Li, Shaohui ^a   Krenz, Marcel ^a   Wöste, Ludger ^a   Siebert, Torsten ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER PULSES; SAPPHIRE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION SCHEME; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATINGS; NEAR-INFRARED RANGE; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; SPATIAL BEAM PROFILES; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

PULSED LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 56149098933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018910     Document Type: Article

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