Dispersion characteristics of acousto-optic deflector for scanning Gaussian laser beam of femtosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4726-4734

  Li, Derong ^a   Zeng, Shaoqun ^a   Lv, Xiaohua ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Du, Rui ^a   Jiang, Runhua ^a   Chen, Wei R ^b   Luo, Qingming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; SCANNING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACOUSTOOPTIC DEFLECTOR (AOD); ANGULAR DISPERSION; LITTROW STRUCTURE; MATERIAL DISPERSION; SCANNING MICROSCOPY;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 34247198426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004726     Document Type: Article

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