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  1. 02-TW laser system at 1  kHz (1997)
    Sterling Backus, Charles G. Durfee et al. Optics Letters
  2. Pulse compression by use of deformable mirrors (1999)
    Erik Zeek, Sterling Backus et al. Optics Letters
  3. Short-Pulse Laser Damage in Transparent Materials as a Function of Pulse Duration (1999)
    An-Chun Tien, Sterling Backus et al. Physical Review Letters

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Works of Sterling Backus being referenced

High-Order Harmonic Generation up to 250 eV from Highly Ionized Argon
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Generation of Broadband VUV Light Using Third-Order Cascaded Processes
2001
Spatio-temporally focused femtosecond laser pulses for nonreciprocal writing in optically transparent materials
2010
Long-term carrier-envelope phase stability from a grating-based, chirped pulse amplifier
2006
Quasi-phase-matched generation of coherent extreme-ultraviolet light
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Highly coherent light at 13 nm generated by use of quasi-phase-matched high-harmonic generation
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11-W average power Ti:sapphire amplifier system using downchirped pulse amplification
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Intense 8-fs pulse generation in the deep ultraviolet
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Ultrabroadband phase-matched optical parametric generation in the ultraviolet by use of guided waves
1997
Phase-Matched Generation of Coherent Soft X-rays
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High-efficiency, single-stage 7-kHz high-average-power ultrafast laser system
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Intracavity frequency doubling in a Ti:sapphire laser: generation of 14-fs pulses at 416 nm
1994
Adaptive pulse compression for transform-limited 15-fs high-energy pulse generation
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Design and implementation of a TW-class high-average power laser system
1998
Prepulse suppression for high-energy ultrashort pulses using self-induced plasma shuttering from a fluid target
1993
Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays
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Phase matching in cascaded third-order processes
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High power ultrafast lasers
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Ti:sapphire amplifier producing millijoule-level, 21-fs pulses at 1 kHz
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Pulse compression by use of deformable mirrors
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Absolute determination of the wavelength and spectrum of an extreme-ultraviolet beam by a Young’s double-slit measurement
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Ultrafast laser and amplifier sources
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Coherent Soft X-ray Generation in the Water Window with Quasi-Phase Matching
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GUIDED-WAVE PHASE-MATCHING OF ULTRASHORT-PULSE LIGHT
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1999
Phase Matching of High-Order Harmonics in Hollow Waveguides
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