Fiber-amplifier pumped high average power few-cycle pulse non-collinear OPCPA

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4689-4694

  Tavella, F ^a,b   Willner, A ^a   Rothhardt, J ^c   Hadrich S ^c   Seise, E ^c   Dusterer S ^a,b   Tschentscher, T ^d   Schlarb, H ^a   Feldhaus, J ^a,b   Limpert, J ^b,c,e   Tunnermann A ^b,c,e   Rossbach, J ^f  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; AVERAGE POWER; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FREE ELECTRON; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFIER SYSTEM; PEAK POWER; REPETITION RATE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 77749248883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004689     Document Type: Article

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