Clean sub-8-fs pulses at 400 nm generated by a hollow fiber compressor for ultraviolet ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20645-20650

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBES; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; FS PULSE; HOLLOW FIBER; LASER SPECTRA; PHOTOACTIVE YELLOW PROTEINS; SELF-DIFFRACTION; SPECTRAL BROADENING; ULTRAFAST PUMP-PROBE SPECTROSCOPY;

ULTRAFAST LASERS;

ALUMINUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOTOACTIVE YELLOW PROTEIN, BACTERIA; VISUAL PROTEINS AND PIGMENTS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALUMINUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTORECEPTORS, MICROBIAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77958008712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020645     Document Type: Article

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