Freezing phase scheme for fast adaptive control and its application to characterization of femtosecond coherent optical pulses reflected from semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1134-1142

  Chen, Ming C ^a   Huang, Jung Y ^a   Yang, Qiantso ^a   Pan, C L ^a   Chyi, Jen Inn ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BRAGG REFLECTOR; FEMTOSECOND COHERENT OPTICAL PULSES; SEMICONDUCTOR SATURABLE ABSORBER MIRROR; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 20544450761     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001134     Document Type: Article

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