Ultrabroadband TW-class Ti:Sapphire laser system with adjustable central wavelength, bandwidth and multi-color operation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20128-20140

  Trisorio, Alexandre ^a   Paul, Pierre M ^c   Ple, Fabien ^c   Ruchert, Clemens ^a   Vicario, Carlo ^a   Hauri, Christoph P ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c AMPLITUDE SYSTÈMES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; HARMONIC GENERATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEMS; COMPRESSED PULSE; DEEP-UV; ENERGY STABILITY; FS PULSE; GAIN NARROWING; HIGH-POWER; MULTI-COLORS; PUMP LASER; REPETITION RATE; SECOND AND THIRD HARMONICS; TI:SAPPHIRE; TI:SAPPHIRE LASER SYSTEMS; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; ULTRA-BROADBAND; UV- AND; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 80053960739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020128     Document Type: Article

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