Octave-spanning, dual-output 2.166 GHz Ti:sapphire laser

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20699-20705

  Chen, Li Jin ^a   Benedick, Andrew J ^a   Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Sander, Michelle Y ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SAPPHIRE;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; DIRECT GENERATION; NON-INTRUSIVE; OCTAVE-SPANNING SPECTRA; REPETITION RATE; RESOLUTION BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

LASER MIRRORS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM;

EID: 57349089339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020699     Document Type: Article

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