Evaluation of femtosecond pulse shaping with low-loss phase-only masks

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 346-352

  Takasago, Kazuya ^a,c   Takekawa, Makoto ^a,d   Suzuki, Masayuki ^a,d   Komori, Kazuhiro ^b,c,e,f   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a,c,g,h  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^g RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^h STI OPTRONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Phase only mask; Pulse shaping; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; EVALUATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MASKS; OPTIMIZATION; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032025045     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686741     Document Type: Review

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