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Towards Ultrashort CE Phase Stable Pulses

  • Oleg ProninEmail author
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As discussed in Sect.  3.2, the most promising gain media for thin-disk operation are Yb:YAG and with the corresponding gain bandwidths of 9 nm and 13 nm.

Keywords

Photonic Crystal Fibre Frequency Comb Pump Diode Carrier Envelope Phase Fibre Compression 
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  1. 1.PhysikLudwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU)GarchingGermany

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