Ultrafast fibre lasers

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 868-874

  Fermann, Martin E ^a   Hartl, Ingmar ^b  

^a IMRA AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRPED-PULSE AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; FREQUENCY-SHIFTING; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; LASER TECHNOLOGIES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

AMPLIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBERS;

EID: 84887103015     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.280     Document Type: Review

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