High energy picosecond Yb:YAG CPA system at 10 Hz repetition rate for pumping optical parametric amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5357-5363

  Klingebiel, Sandro ^a   Wandt, Christoph ^a   Skrobol, Christoph ^a   Ahmad, Izhar ^a   Trushin, Sergei A ^a   Major, Zsuzsanna ^a,b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b   Karsch, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPS; YTTERBIUM;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS; DIODE-PUMPED; HIGH ENERGY; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PICOSECONDS; REPETITION RATE; TIME-SCALES; YAG;

PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79952588426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005357     Document Type: Article

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