Zeptosecond precision pulse shaping

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11638-11653

  Köhler, Jens ^a   Wollenhaupt, Matthias ^a   Bayer, Tim ^a   Sarpe, Cristian ^a   Baumert, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

ALL-OPTICAL; ATTOSECONDS; COHERENT CONTROL; COMMON-PATH INTERFEROMETERS; DELAY STAGES; DELAYED PULSE; FEMTOSECONDS; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; LINEAR SPECTRAL; PHASE MASKS; PULSE PAIRS; PULSE SHAPER; PULSE SHAPING TECHNIQUES; PULSE-SHAPING; QUANTUM CONTROL; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL PHASE; TEMPORAL PRECISION; TIME-SCALES; ULTRAFAST ELECTRON DYNAMICS; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 79958188897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011638     Document Type: Article

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