Routes to fiber delivery of ultra-short laser pulses in the 25 fs regime

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1240-1247

  Le, Tuan ^a   Tempea, Gabriel ^a   Cheng, Zhao ^a   Hofer, Martin ^a   Stingl, Andreas ^a  

^a FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SAPPHIRE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

FIBER DELIVERY; LIFE-SCIENCES; SHORT LASER PULSE; SHORT OPTICAL PULSE; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 59749084022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001240     Document Type: Article

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