Empirical study of the group delay dispersion achievable with multilayer mirrors

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 18311-18316

  Pervak, V ^a,b   Fedorov, V ^c   Pervak, Yu A ^c   Trubetskov, M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ULTRAFAST INNOVATIONS GMBH   (Germany)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GROUP DELAY; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GROUP DELAY DISPERSION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; MULTI-LAYER MIRRORS; PHYSICAL THICKNESS; REASONABLE VALUE; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY; THIRD ORDER DISPERSION;

DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84880947458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.018311     Document Type: Article

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