Positive-dispersion cavity-dumped ti: Sapphire laser oscillator and its application to white light generation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9750-9757

  Zhou, Xibin ^a   Kapteyn, Henry ^a   Murnane, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 85010112006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009750     Document Type: Article

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