White light generation and pulse compression with a Ti:Sapphire high energy oscillator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7582, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Koehler, Wolfgang ^a   Tempea, Gabriel ^a  

^a FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Pulse compression; Supercontinuum; White light genertation

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED PULSE; COMPRESSED PULSE; COMPRESSION SCHEME; COMPRESSION STAGES; FAR-FIELD; FS PULSE; HIGH ENERGY; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PULSE DURATIONS; SAPPHIRE PLATES; SPATIAL FILTERINGS; SUPERCONTINUUM; TI:SAPPHIRE; WHITE LIGHT; WHITE LIGHT GENERTATION; WHITE-LIGHT GENERATION;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PULSE COMPRESSION; SAPPHIRE;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77951760334     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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