Multi-microjoule, MHz repetition rate Ti:sapphire ultrafast regenerative amplifier system

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7015-7021

  Zhang, Xiaoshi ^a   Schneider, Eric ^a   Taft, Greg ^a   Kaptyen, Henry ^a,c   Murnane, Margaret ^a,c   Backus, Sterling ^a,b  

^a Kapteyn Murnane Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRP MODULATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

AVERAGE POWER; LASER SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR IMAGING; PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PULSE DURATIONS; REGENERATIVE AMPLIFIER; REPETITION RATE; TI:SAPPHIRE; ULTRA-FAST;

LASER SURGERY;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84859393331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007015     Document Type: Article

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