Optimization of ultrashort-pulse squeezing by spectral filtering with the Fourier pulse-shaping technique

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 1592-1594

  Takeoka, Masahiro ^a,b   Fujishima, Daisuke ^a   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRAL FILTERING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0000655817     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001592     Document Type: Article

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