Pulse compression with time-domain optimized chirped mirrors

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10888-10894

  Dombi, P ^a,b   Yakovlev, V S ^c   O'Keeffe, K ^a   Fuji, T ^c   Lezius, M ^a   Tempea, G ^a,d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHIRPED MIRRORS (CM); DISPERSIVE OPTICAL INTERFERENCE COATINGS; OPTICAL PULSES;

MIRRORS;

EID: 29244436645     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010888     Document Type: Article

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