Ultrafast phase and amplitude pulse shaping with a single, one-dimensional, high-resolution phase mask

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8979-8987

  Wilson, Jesse W ^a   Schlup, Philip ^a   Bartels, Randy A ^a  

^a Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AMPLITUDE PULSEES; AMPLITUDE SHAPING; PHASE MASKS; ULTRAFAST PHASE;

MASKS;

EID: 34547143222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008979     Document Type: Article

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