Sub-10-fs pulses from a MHz-NOPA with pulse energies of 0.4 μJ

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1191-1196

  Emons, Moritz ^a   Steinmann, Andy ^a   Binhammer, Thomas ^b   Palmer, Guido ^a   Schultze, Marcel ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b Laser Quantum GmbH   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^d LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM;

FS PULSE; LONG PULSE; MICROJOULE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; ROD-TYPE FIBERS; SINGLE STAGE; ULTRA-BROADBAND; WHITE-LIGHT GENERATION; YAG;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 75249086944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001191     Document Type: Article

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