Bichromatic, phase compensating interferometer based on prism pair compressors

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6187-6191

  Flickinger, Daniel A ^a   Coffee, Ryan N ^b   Gibson, George N ^b   Weinacht, Thomas C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PHASE CONTROL; PRISMS;

DISPERSIVE MATERIALS; SINGLE BEAM; TRICHROMATIC PRISM PAIR INTERFEROMETERS; ULTRAFAST LASER PULSES;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33749830354     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006187     Document Type: Article

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