23W peak power picosecond pulses from a single-stage all-semiconductor master oscillator power amplifier

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 98, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 295-299

  Riecke, S ^a   Schwertfeger, S ^b   Lauritsen, K ^a   Paschke, K ^b   Erdmann, R ^a   Trankle G ^b  

^a PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LEVEL; EXTINCTION RATIOS; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; NARROWBAND LASERS; PEAK POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SINGLE STAGE; SPECTRAL FILTERS; SPECTRAL METHODS;

HARMONIC GENERATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 73849085650     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-009-3672-z     Document Type: Article

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