Generation of flattop pump pulses for OPCPA by coherent pulse stacking with fiber Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 16332-16341

  Rothhardt, J ^a   Hadrich, S ^a   Gottschall, T ^a   Limpert, J ^a   Tunnermann A ^a,b   Rothhardt, M ^c   Becker, M ^c   Bruckner S ^c   Bartelt, H ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

ALIGNMENT-FREE; COHERENT PULSE; FALLING EDGE; FIBER-OPTICAL; PULSE AMPLITUDE; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE SHAPING TECHNIQUES; STEP-INDEX FIBERS;

PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 69949108511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016332     Document Type: Article

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