chirped-pulse amplification

noun

Etymology

From chirp + -ed + pulse + amplification.

Definitions

  1. Technique for achieving greater amplification of a laser pulse by stretching ("chirping")…

    Technique for achieving greater amplification of a laser pulse by stretching ("chirping") it, amplifying it, and then compressing it, thereby avoiding damage to amplifier components.

    • This progress is made possible by the use of the chirped-pulse amplification technique […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chirped-pulse amplification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA