Interferometric generation of parametrically shaped polarization pulses

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5987-5990

  Weber, Stefan M ^a   Weise, Fabian ^a   Plewicki, Mateusz ^a   Lindinger, Albrecht ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELLIPSOMETRY; PARAMETRIC DEVICES; POLARIZATION; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ELLIPTICITIES; PARALLEL PULSE SHAPER; PARAMETRICALLY SHAPED POLARIZATION PULSES; POLARIZATION PULSES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 35948949065     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005987     Document Type: Article

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