Few-cycle OPCPA system at 143 kHz with more than 1 μJ of pulse energy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2836-2841

  Schnltze, Marcel ^a   Binhammer, Thomas ^b   Steinmann, Andy ^a   Palmer, Guido ^a   Emons, Moritz ^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

AMPLIFICATION; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; YTTERBIUM;

FEW-CYCLE; OPTICAL CYCLES; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE PEAK POWER; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; STRONG FIELD; TABLE-TOP; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; YAG;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 76149089096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002836     Document Type: Article

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