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Broadband Seed Generation

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A major requirement for developing the OPCPA systems discussed in Chap. 1, is the availability of seed pulses with a broadband spectrum, a well-behaved spectral phase, and preferably a stable carrier envelope phase (CEP).

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    This section is adapted from Fattahi et al. (2013).

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Fattahi, H. (2016). Broadband Seed Generation. In: Third-Generation Femtosecond Technology. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20025-5_3

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