Ultrabroadband pulse shaping with a push-pull deformable mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 23147-23152

  Bonora, Stefano ^a   Brida, Daniele ^b   Villoresi, Paolo ^a   Cerullo, Giulio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXCITED STATES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MIRRORS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

DEFORMABLE MIRRORS; DYE MOLECULE; FIELD CONTROL; NEAR-IR; NOVEL DESIGN; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PULSE; PULSE-SHAPING; PUSH PULL; STATE POPULATION; ULTRABROADBAND PULSE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 78149378041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023147     Document Type: Article

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