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Saraceno et al., 2015 - Google Patents

Kagome-type hollow-core photonic crystal fibers for beam delivery and pulse compression of high-power ultrafast lasers

Saraceno et al., 2015

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13793462316045109632
Author
Saraceno C
Emaury F
Diebold A
Schriber C
Debord B
Gérôme F
Südmeyer T
Benabid F
Keller U
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Components and Packaging for Laser Systems

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Tremendous progress has been achieved in the last years in the field of ultrafast high-power sources. Among the different laser technologies driving this progress, thin-disk lasers (TDLs) have gained significant ground, both from amplifiers and modelocked oscillators …
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