High-energy, phase-stable, ultrabroadband kHz OPCPA at 2.1 μm pumped by a picosecond cryogenic Yb:YAG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15538-15548

  Hong, Kyung Han ^a   Huang, Shu Wei ^a   Moses, Jeffrey ^a   Fu, Xing ^a   Lai, Chien Jen ^a   Cirmi, Giovanni ^a   Sell, Alexander ^a   Granados, Eduardo ^a,b   Keathley, Phillip ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a,c  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; NEON; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PUMPS; XENON; YLF LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

AMPLIFIED PULSE; BEAM PROFILES; CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE; GAS PRESSURES; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH ORDER HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL CYCLES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PHOTON ENERGY; PICOSECONDS; PUMP LASER; REPETITION RATE; SIGNAL PULSE; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; ULTRA-BROADBAND; YB:YAG LASER;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79961071451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015538     Document Type: Article

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