Periodic optical delay line based on a tilted parabolic generatrix helicoid reflective mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1998-2005

  Yuebin, Wang ^a,b   Changlei, Wang ^a,b   Qirong, Xing ^a,b   Feng, Liu ^a,b   Yanfeng, Li ^a,b   Lu, Chai ^a,b   Qingyue, Wang ^a,b   Fengzhou, Fang ^b   Xiaodong, Zhang ^b  

^a Institute of Lasers and Optoelectronics   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL TESTING; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

AUTO-CORRELATION SIGNALS; DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; OPTICAL SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; PULSE-FRONT DISTORTION; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY;

VIDEODISKS;

EID: 65249115313     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001998     Document Type: Article

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