Ultrafast pulse shaping: Amplification and characterization

Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 366-375

  Fetterman, M R ^a   Goswami, D ^a   Keusters, D ^a   Yang, W ^a   Rhee, J K ^a   Warren, W S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCIES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PULSE SHAPING; SPECTRAL MODULATION; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS; ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

BRAGG CELLS;

EID: 0000318675     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.3.000366     Document Type: Article

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