Two-color pumped OPCPA system emitting spectra spanning 1.5 octaves from VIS to NIR

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3076-3081

  Harth, Anne ^a,b   Schultze, Marcel ^a   Lang, Tino ^a,b   Binhammer, Thomas ^c   Rausch, Stefan ^a,b   Morgner, Uwe ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

^c Laser Quantum GmbH   (Germany)

^d LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

COMMON PATH; FOURIER; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; FS PULSE; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; REPETITION RATE; TWO-COLOR; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

PULSE REPETITION RATE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COLOR; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84856456220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003076     Document Type: Article

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