Miniature pulse compressor of deep-etched gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 6058-6063

  Jia, Wei ^a   Zhou, Changhe ^a   Feng, Jijun ^a   Dai, Enwen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSORS; FUSED SILICA; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DUTY-CYCLE; ETCHED GRATINGS; FS PULSE; GROOVE DEPTH; LITTROW; PULSE COMPRESSORS; TRANSMISSIVE GRATING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; PHOTON; PHYSICS; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58949100204     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006058     Document Type: Article

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