Broadband amplification by picosecond OPCPA in DKDP pumped at 515 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4619-4629

  Skrobol, Christoph ^a,b   Ahmad, Izhar ^a,c   Klingebiel, Sandro ^a   Wandt, Christoph ^a   Trushin, Sergei A ^a   Major, Zsuzsanna ^a,b   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b   Karsch, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Optics Laboratories   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; CHIRP MODULATION; LASER OPTICS;

BROADBAND AMPLIFICATION; CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; FEW-CYCLE; LIGHT PULSE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPTICAL CYCLES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PEAK POWER; PETAWATT; PICOSECONDS; PULSE DURATIONS; THEORETICAL MODELLING; TIME-SCALES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84857255179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004619     Document Type: Article

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