Beating spatio-temporal coupling: Implications for pulse shaping and coherent control experiments

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26486-26499

  Brinks, Daan ^a   Hildner, Richard ^a,b   Stefani, Fernando D ^a,c   Van Hulst, Niek F ^a,d  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS;

COHERENT CONTROL; DETECTION VOLUME; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PULSE STRETCHING; SINGLE MOLECULE; SPATIO TEMPORAL; ULTRAFAST PULSE;

PULSE SHAPING;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84555197200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026486     Document Type: Article

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