A programmable Fresnel transform pulse shaper

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 8056-8068

  Minguez Vega G ^a   McKinney, J D ^b   Weiner, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

FRESNEL TRANSFORMS; PULSE SHAPING LENS; TEMPORAL WAVEFORMS;

PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

EID: 30144440933     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008056     Document Type: Article

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