Femtosecond pulse shaping in two dimensions: Towards higher complexity optical waveforms

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11878-11887

  Supradeepa, V R ^a   Huang, Chen Bin ^a,b   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

FOURIER PULSE SHAPING; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; LINE-BY-LINE PULSE SHAPING; MASSIVELY PARALLELS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; OPTICAL WAVEFORM; SPECTROSCOPIC SENSING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICS;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OPTICS;

EID: 49149100543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011878     Document Type: Article

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