Extremely simple single-prism ultrashort-pulse compressor

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 10101-10108

  Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Gu, Xun ^a   Kimmel, Mark ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a Swamp Optics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PRISMS;

ANGULAR DISPERSION; MAGNIFICATION; ULTRASHORT-PULSE COMPRESSORS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 33750320365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010101     Document Type: Article

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