Pulse compression of submillijoule few-optical-cycle infrared laser pulses using chirped mirrors

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1894-1896

  Giguère, Mathieu ^a   Schmidt, Bruno E ^a   Shiner, Andrew D ^b   Houle, Marie Andrée ^a   Bandulet, Heidi C ^a   Tempea, Gabriel ^c   Villeneuve, David M ^b   Kieffer, Jean Claude ^a   Légaré, François ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON LASERS; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER MIRRORS; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

CHIRPED MIRRORS; HOLLOW CORE FIBER; LASER SOURCES; OPTICAL CYCLES; REPORT GENERATION; SPECTRAL BROADENING; TIME-RESOLVED; ULTRA-FAST;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 67649383636     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.001894     Document Type: Article

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