New aspects of temporal dispersion in high-resolution Fourier pulse shaping: A quantitative description with virtually imaged phased array pulse shapers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1833-1844

  Supradeepa, V R ^a   Hamidi, Ehsan ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; PHOTOMAPPING;

ANGULAR DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FOURIER; FOURIER PULSE SHAPING; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE DIFFRACTION; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; NONZERO DISPERSION; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; PHASE VARIATION; PULSE SHAPER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; SPACE MAPPINGS; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SPECTRAL INTERFERENCE; SPECTRAL MAPPINGS; TEMPORAL DISPERSION; VIRTUALLY IMAGED PHASED ARRAYS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 77956502172     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001833     Document Type: Article

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