Dispersion management in femtosecond laser oscillators with highly dispersive mirrors

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20598-20604

  Dombi, Péter ^a   Rácz, Péter ^a   Lenner, Miklós ^a   Pervak, Volodymyr ^b   Krausz, Ferenc ^b,c  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; GROUP DELAY; MIRRORS; SAPPHIRE;

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; FEMTOSECOND LASER OSCILLATORS; FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; INTRACAVITIES; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS;

LASER MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70749142656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020598     Document Type: Article

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