8-fs pulses from a compact Er:fiber system: Quantitative modeling and experimental implementation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1070-1077

  Sell, Alexander ^a   Krauss, Günther ^a   Scheu, Rüdiger ^a   Huber, Rupert ^a   Leitenstorfer, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

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EID: 85010174879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001070     Document Type: Article

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