Compensation for a transfer function of a regenerative amplifier to generate accurately shaped ultrashort pulses in both the amplitude and phase

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 221-228

  Tanabe, Takasumi ^a   Yamanaka, Mio ^a   Okamoto, Tatsuyoshi ^a   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amplitude and phase; Femtosecond laser pulses; Pulse amplification; Pulse shaping; Spectral interferometry (SI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AMPLITUDE AND PHASE; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY (OCT); PULSE AMPLIFICATION; PULSE SHAPING; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY (SI);

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 2442457763     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.824069     Document Type: Article

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