High average and peak power few-cycle laser pulses delivered by fiber pumped OPCPA system

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12719-12726

  Rothhardt, J ^a,c   Hadrich S ^a,c   Seise, E ^a,c   Krebs, M ^a,c   Tavella, F ^b,c   Willner, A ^b,c   Dusterer S ^b   Schlarb, H ^b   Feldhaus, J ^b   Limpert, J ^a,c   Rossbach, J ^b,d   Tunnermann A ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; KRYPTON; LASER PULSES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER);

AVERAGE POWER; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FS PULSE; GAS JET; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH-POWER; LASER SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; PHASE STABLE; REPETITION RATE; SEED OSCILLATORS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77953550926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012719     Document Type: Article

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