Generation of stable sub-10 fs pulses at 400 nm in a hollow fiber for UV pump-probe experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4664-4672

  Liu, Jun ^a   Kida, Yuichiro ^a,b   Teramoto, Takahiro ^a,b   Kobayashi, Takayoshi ^a,b,c,d  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; PROBES; PUMPS;

CENTER WAVELENGTH; FS PULSE; HOLLOW FIBER; OUTPUT POWER; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; TIME-RESOLVED; VIBRATION MODES; VIBRATIONAL PHASE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77749315078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004664     Document Type: Article

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