Active stabilization for optically synchronized optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5557-5565

  Schwarz, Alexander ^a   Ueffing, Moritz ^a,c   Deng, Yunpei ^a   Gu, Xun ^a   Fattahi, Hanieh ^a,b   Metzger, Thomas ^a,b   Ossiander, Marcus ^a,c   Krausz, Ferenc ^a,b   Kienberger, Reinhard ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER OPTICS; STABILIZATION; TIMING JITTER;

ACTIVE STABILIZATION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; NEW HIGH; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SEED PULSE; SINGLE-SHOT; TEMPORAL OVERLAP;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; LASERS; OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 84857523261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005557     Document Type: Article

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