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Amplification of 70-fs optical pulses to gigawatt powers

R. L. Fork, C. V. Shank, R. Yen

Applied Physics Letters · 1982 · 182 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

We report a technique for amplifying pulses as short as 70 fs to gigawatt power levels while retaining the short duration of the incident pulse. Pulse recompression by a dispersive delay line is used to compensate temporal broadening by group velocity dispersion.

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