Efficient spectral shift and compression of femtosecond pulses by parametric amplification of chirped light

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2136-2142

  Nejbauer, Michał ^a   Radzewicz, Czesław ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; OPTICAL PUMPING; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER SYSTEM; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; NARROW BANDWIDTH; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PUMP PULSE; SPECTRAL FILTERING; SPECTRAL SHIFT; TUNING RANGES; WHITE LIGHT;

PULSE GENERATORS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; DATA COMPRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84856411119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002136     Document Type: Article

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