Carrier-envelope phase shift caused by grating-based stretchers and compressors

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 8350-8353

  Chang, Zenghu ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

FEEDBACK LOOPS; GRATING CONSTANT; OPTICAL STRETCHERS; THERMAL MOTION;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 33845949763     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008350     Document Type: Article

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