Comparison of dispersive mirrors based on the time-domain and conventional approaches, for sub-5-fs pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2207-2217

  Pervak, V ^a   Ahmad, I ^b   Fulop, J ^b   Trubetskov, M K ^c   Tikhonravov, A V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSE COMPRESSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; FS PULSE; NEW APPROACHES; PULSE DURATIONS; TARGET DESIGN; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-DOMAIN APPROACH;

MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60549090827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002207     Document Type: Article

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