Experimental and theoretical investigation of timing jitter inside a stretcher-compressor setup

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3443-3455

  Klingebiel, Sandro ^a   Ahmad, Izhar ^a,c   Wandt, Christoph ^a   Skrobol, 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

CHIRP MODULATION; COMPRESSORS; GROUP DELAY; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; STRETCHERS;

AIR TURBULENCE; ANGULAR DEVIATIONS; CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATIONS; DELAY CHANGE; OPTICAL-PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; SHORT-PULSE; STABILIZATION SYSTEMS; STANDARD DEVIATION; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TIMING FLUCTUATION;

TIMING JITTER;

EID: 84857326653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003443     Document Type: Article

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