Generation of high quality, 1.3 cycle pulses by active phase control of an octave spanning supercontinuum

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20151-20158

  Demmler, Stefan ^a   Rothhardt, Jan ^a,b   Heidt, Alexander M ^c,d   Hartung, Alexander ^d   Rohwer, Erich G ^c   Bartelt, Hartmut ^d   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,e  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE CONTROL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; CYCLE PULSE; FS PULSE; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH STABILITY; NONLINEAR PULSE COMPRESSION; OPTICAL CYCLES; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSE QUALITY; SPECTRAL AMPLITUDE; SPECTRAL INTENSITY; SUPERCONTINUUM; TI:SAPPHIRE OSCILLATORS; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 80053988763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020151     Document Type: Article

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