Generation of 30-fs ultraviolet pulses by four-wave optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16096-16101

  Darginavicius J ^a   Tamosauskas G ^a   Piskarskas, A ^a   Dubietis, A ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; FUSED SILICA; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SILICA;

CHIRPED SIGNALS; IDLER PULSE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; ULTRAVIOLET PULSE;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 77954912812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016096     Document Type: Article

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