Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, Volume. 12, Issue 1, 1448(2014)

The influence of output pulse spectral shape and bandwidth on pulsecontrast in the chirped pulse amplification

Qingwei Yang1、*, Mingwei Liu2, Xinglong Xie1, Jun Kang1, Ailin Guo1, Haidong Zhu1, and Qi Gao1
Author Affiliations
  • 1National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 390, QingheRoad, Jiading District, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Hunan University of Science and Technology, Hunan 411201, China
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    Qingwei Yang, Mingwei Liu, Xinglong Xie, Jun Kang, Ailin Guo, Haidong Zhu, Qi Gao. The influence of output pulse spectral shape and bandwidth on pulsecontrast in the chirped pulse amplification[J]. Collection Of theses on high power laser and plasma physics, 2014, 12(1): 1448

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    Published Online: May. 27, 2017

    The Author Email: Yang Qingwei (yqwphy@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1016/j.ijleo.2013.09.014

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