Gires-Tournois interferometer type negative dispersion mirrors for deep ultraviolet pulse compression

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 18615-18624

  Rivera, Christopher A ^a   Bradforth, Stephen E ^a   Tempea, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PULSE COMPRESSION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CHIRP COMPENSATION; CHIRPED MIRRORS; DEEP ULTRAVIOLET; DEEP-ULTRAVIOLET REGIONS; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FS PULSE; GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETER; GIRES-TOURNOIS INTERFEROMETERS; HIGH-ORDER DISPERSION; HIGHER ORDER DISPERSION; MIRROR DESIGN; MULTILAYER DIELECTRICS; NEAR INFRARED; NEGATIVE DISPERSION MIRRORS; PULSE BROADENING; SPATIAL DEFORMATION; SPECTRAL BEAMS; TECHNIQUES USED; ULTRA-FAST; UV WAVELENGTH RANGES;

BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77956363198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018615     Document Type: Article

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