Femtosecond dispersion compensation with multilayer coatings: Toward the optical octave

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1484-1490

  Steinmeyer, Günter ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

FEMTOSECOND OSCILLATORS; GRATING SEQUENCES; MATERIAL DISPERSION; ULTRABROADBAND MIRROR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 33645322125     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001484     Document Type: Article

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