High-order pulse front tilt caused by high-order angular dispersion

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 3365-3376

  Nabekawa, Yasuo ^a   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; CRYSTALS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION (GDD); OPTICAL PARAMETER AMPLIFICATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 2942736982     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003365     Document Type: Article

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