Enhanced dispersion compensation capability of angular elements based on beam expansion

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 16415-16422

  Du, Rui ^a   Jiang, Runhua ^a   Fu, Ling ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; GROUP DELAY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEFLECTORS; APPLICATION SYSTEMS; BEAM EXPANSION; EXPANDED BEAMS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE LASER; LASER MICRO-MACHINING; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; NEGATIVE GROUP DELAY;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION;

EID: 70349210568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.016415     Document Type: Article

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