Regenerative thin disk amplifier with combined gain spectra producing 500 uμJ sub 200 fs pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8046-8050

  Buenting, Udo ^a   Sayinc, Hakan ^a   Wandt, Dieter ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b   Krach, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION;

AVERAGE POWER; FEMTOSECONDS; FS PULSE; GAIN SPECTRA; PEAK POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; THIN DISK;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 66449125842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008046     Document Type: Article

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