Application of a spatial light modulator for programmable optical pulse compression to the sub-6-fs regime

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1540-1542

  Xu, L ^a,b,c,e   Li, Liming ^d   Nakagawa, N ^a,b   Morita, R ^a,b   Yamashita, M ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMABLE CHIRP COMPENSATION; PULSE COMPRESSION; PULSE SHAPING; ULTRABROAD SPECTRUM; WHITE LIGHT CONTINUUM PULSE;

BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; OPTIMIZATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0034314214     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.887740     Document Type: Article

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