Programmable chirp compensation for 6-fs pulse generation with a prism-pair-formed pulse shaper

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 893-899

  Xu, Lin ^a,b   Nakagawa, N ^a,c   Morita, R ^a,c   Shigekawa, H ^d   Yamashita, M ^a,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

NONLINEAR CHIRP COMPENSATION; OPTICAL PULSE; PROGRAMMABLE PULSE SHAPING; PULSE COMPRESSION; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR; ULTRABOUND SPECTRUM; ULTRASHORT PULSE;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0034246326     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.853533     Document Type: Article

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