Application of adaptive feedback loop for ultraviolet femtosecond pulse shaper control

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 10089-10093

  Huang, Yu ^a   Dogariu, Arthur ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING (CARS); FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHAPER CONTROL; PULSE CHIRP; STOKES PULSE;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750368873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010089     Document Type: Article

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