Spectral phase, amplitude, and spatial modulation from ultraviolet to infrared with a reflective MEMS pulse shaper

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7580-7586

  Extermann, Jérôme ^a   Weber, Stefan M ^a,b   Kiselev, Denis ^a   Bonacina, Luigi ^a   Lani, Sébastien ^b   Jutzi, Fabio ^b   Noell, Wilfried ^b   De Rooij, Nico F ^b   Wolf, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

ACTIVE CORRECTION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MIRROR ARRAY; PULSE SHAPER; SPATIAL CHIRP; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; TILT-MIRROR;

MIRRORS;

EID: 79953881849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007580     Document Type: Article

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