Femtosecond spectral pulse shaping with holographic gratings recorded in photopolymerizable glasses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1516-1527

  Hernandez Garay M P ^a   Martinez Matos O ^a   Izquierdo, J G ^a   Calvo, M L ^a   Vaveliuk, P ^a,b   Cheben, P ^c   Banares L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b SENAI CIMATEC   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; GLASS; HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; LASER DAMAGE; LASER PULSES; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SAPPHIRE; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FLUENCE THRESHOLDS; LASER INDUCE DAMAGE THRESHOLD; PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE GLASS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL PULSE SHAPING; THEORETICAL MODELING; TI:SAPPHIRE LASER SYSTEMS; VOLUME PHASE HOLOGRAPHIC GRATINGS;

PULSE SHAPING;

GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOLOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLASS; HOLOGRAPHY; LASERS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78751538802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001516     Document Type: Article

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