Continuous waveform variable true-time delay by optical coherent transients

Optics Communications

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-110

  Merkel, K D ^a   Babbitt, W R ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; HOLOGRAPHY; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

BEAM GEOMETRY; BEAMSTEERING; FREQUENCY SHIFTING; LINEAR FREQUENCY CHIRPED PULSES; OPTICAL COHERENT TRANSIENTS; SPATIAL SPECTRAL HOLOGRAPHY; TRUE TIME DELAY;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0033746577     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00696-9     Document Type: Article

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