Direct femtosecond pulse compression with miniature-sized Bragg cholesteric liquid crystal

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 5040-5042

  Song, Liyan ^a   Fu, Shenhe ^a   Liu, Yikun ^a   Zhou, Jianying ^a   Chigrinov, Vladimir G ^b   Khoo, Iam Choon ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODE EQUATION; DIRECT COMPRESSION; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PULSE; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; PULSE DURATIONS; THICK SAMPLES; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

EID: 84889071735     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.005040     Document Type: Article

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