Two-color deep-ultraviolet 40-fs pulses based on parametric amplification at 100 kHz

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22637-22642

  Shen, Huan ^a,b   Adachi, Shunsuke ^a   Horio, Takuya ^a,b   Suzuki, Toshinori ^a,b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NITRIC OXIDE; OPTICAL PUMPING; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

CROSS-CORRELATION MEASUREMENTS; DEEP ULTRAVIOLET LASERS; NONCOLLINEAR OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PULSE ENERGIES; SECOND HARMONICS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TWO-COLOR;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 80755180929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022637     Document Type: Article

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