Design of a femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser for generation and temporal optimization of 0.5-PW laser pulses at a 0.1-Hz repetition rate

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-59

  Sung, Jae Hee ^a   Yu, Tae Jun ^a   Lee, Seong Ku ^a   Jeong, Tae Moon ^a   Choi, Woo Ii ^a   Ko, Do Kyeong ^a   Lee, Jongmin ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

PW laser; Ti:sapphire laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549093539     PISSN: 12264776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3807/JOSK.2009.13.1.053     Document Type: Article

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