Multi-gigawatt ultrashort pulses at high repetition rate and average power from two-stage nonlinear compression

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7546-7552

  Hadrich S ^a,b   Carstens, H ^a   Rothhardt, J ^a,b   Limpert, J ^a,b   Tunnermann A ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering ^*  (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; FIBERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INERT GASES; MIRRORS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; XENON;

AVERAGE POWER; CHIRPED MIRRORS; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HOLLOW CORE FIBER; INNER DIAMETERS; NOBLE GAS; NONLINEAR COMPRESSION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEAK POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; TWO STAGE;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

EID: 79953882434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007546     Document Type: Article

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