A pulse in which the wavelength changes during the duration of the pulse. In a diode laser, chirp arises from direct modulation of the laser, because the refractive index changes with the electron ...

They are now a popular tool in applications ranging from materials processing and laser surgery ... products (a measure of pulse complexity), and it tends to introduce chirp, which distorts ...

leveraging chirped pulse amplification techniques. In 1996, the introduction of the first high-power diode-pumped solid-state 532 nm laser significantly reduced the complexity of pumping ...

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Canadian scientist Donna Strickland calls herself a "laser jock". The physics professor ... of Rochester that the pair co-invented Chirped Pulse Amplification, a "method of generating high ...