Direct measurement of group delay dispersion in metamagnetics for ultrafast pulse shaping

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23082-23087

  Brown, Dean P ^a   Walker, Mark A ^b   Urbas, Augustine M ^c   Kildishev, Alexander V ^d   Xiao, Shumin ^d   Drachev, Vladimir P ^d,e  

^a UES INC   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Purdue University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUP DELAY; METAMATERIALS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DISPERSIVE ELEMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GAIN MEDIA; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION; LOSS CONTROL; METAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MULTIPHOTON INTERFERENCE; NEGATIVE GROUP DELAY; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING; TEMPORAL PROFILE; TUNABILITIES; ULTRAFAST PULSE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETICS; PHOTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84867288205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023082     Document Type: Article

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