Improvement of contrast ratio in saturated OPCPA system by using pump pulse shaping and time delay control

Optics Communications

Volumn 285, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4112-4116

  Yoon, Jin Woo ^a   Lee, Seong Ku ^a   Yu, Tae Jun ^a   Sung, Jae Hee ^a   Jeong, Tae Moon ^a   Lee, Jongmin ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contrast ratio; OPCPA; Pulse shaping

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; BROADBAND LASERS; CONTRAST RATIO; HIGH CONTRAST; OPCPA; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PREPULSES; PULSE-SHAPING; PUMP PULSE; RISING TIME; SATURATION REGIME; SEED PULSE; SINGLE STAGE; TEMPORAL PROFILE; TIME DELAY CONTROL;

CHIRP MODULATION; LASER OPTICS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; PUMPS; TIME DELAY;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84863984475     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2012.06.012     Document Type: Article

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