Power scaling of femtosecond enhancement cavities and high-power applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7914, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pupeza, Ioachim ^a,b   Eidam, Tino ^c   Kaster, Jan ^a,b   Bernhardt, Birgitta ^a   Rauschenberger, Jens ^a,b   Ozawa, Akira ^a   Fill, Ernst ^a   Udem, Thomas ^a   Kling, Matthias F ^a   Limpert, Jens ^c   Alahmed, Zeyad A ^d   Azzeer, Abdallah M ^d   Tünnermann, Andreas ^c   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a,b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Enhancement cavity; MHz high harmonic generation; XUV

Indexed keywords

BOW TIE; CAVITY DESIGN; ENHANCEMENT CAVITY; FEMTOSECONDS; FREQUENCY COMBS; GAS JET; HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS; HIGH-POWER; INTRACAVITIES; MHZ HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION; POWER-SCALING; REPETITION RATE; TIME-AVERAGED; XUV;

FIBER LASERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; XENON; YTTERBIUM;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 79955845240     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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