Simplified ultrafast pulse shaper for tailored polarization states using a birefringent prism

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kupka, David ^a   Schlup, Philip ^a   Bartels, Randy A ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENT PRISM; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE-ONLY MODULATION; POLARIZATION STATE; PULSE SHAPER; PULSE SHAPING METHOD; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; THEORETICAL TARGETS; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; ULTRAFAST PULSE;

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; PRISMS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 66549088568     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3130046     Document Type: Article

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