Generation of ultrashort 25-μJ pulses at 200 nm by dual broadband frequency doubling with a thin KBe2BO3F2 crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 13684-13691

  Zhou, Chun ^a,d   Kanai, Teruto ^c   Wang, Xiaoyang ^b   Zhu, Yong ^b   Chen, Chuangtian ^b   Watanabe, Shuntaro ^a,d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

DUAL BROADBAND; FOURTH HARMONICS; HIGH-POWER; OUTPUT ENERGY; PULSE DURATIONS; SELF-TRAPPED EXCITON; SINGLE-SHOT AUTOCORRELATION; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TWO PHOTON FLUORESCENCE;

OPTICS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TITANIUM;

EID: 84863773943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013684     Document Type: Article

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