A spatial light modulator based on fused-silica plates for adaptive feedback control of intense femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 2-6

  Suda, Akira ^a   Oishi, Yu ^b   Nagasaka, Keigo ^b   Wang, Pengqian ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FUSED SILICA; LASER PULSES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS (SLM);

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0006140755     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000002     Document Type: Article

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