Influence of spatiotemporal coupling induced by an ultrashort laser pulse shaper on a focused beam profile

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1092-1098

  Tanabe, Takasumi ^a   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a   Korte, Frank ^b   Koch, Jürgen ^b   Hichkov, Boris ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EXCITATION PULSES; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; OPTICAL FIELDS; SPATIOTEMPORAL COUPLING;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 14844288057     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001092     Document Type: Article

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