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Time to reflect: The role of mirrors in ultrafast laser performance
18 November 2020
Gemma Church explains how mirrors are improving ultrafast laser performance
Gemma Church explains how mirrors are improving ultrafast laser performance
Advances in laser technology have paved the way for the development of powerful, ultrafast lasers with pulse lengths as short as 10fs or less. Building such systems has come with many challenges for the precision optics community. Ultrafast systems therefore require low group delay dispersion (GDD) components to access and maintain femtosecond pulse durations.
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