Advances in carrier-envelope phase stabilization of grating-based chirped-pulse amplifiers

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 160-177

  Moon, Eric ^a,b   Wang, He ^a   Gilbertson, Steve ^a   Mashiko, Hiroki ^a   Chini, Michael ^a   Chang, Zenghu ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Quantronix   (United States)

Author keywords

Attosecond pulses; Carrier envelope phase; f to 2f interferometry; Femtosecond; Few cycle laser; High harmonic generating; High power laser; Subcycle gating

Indexed keywords

ATTOSECOND PULSE; CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; FEMTOSECONDS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE LASER; SUB-CYCLE;

AMPLIFICATION; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 73349113541     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810060     Document Type: Article

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