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Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation.
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It is demonstrated that a combination of prisms and diffraction gratings can provide not only quadratic but also cubic phase compensation of ultrashort optical pulses.Abstract:
We demonstrate that a combination of prisms and diffraction gratings can provide not only quadratic but also cubic phase compensation of ultrashort optical pulses We obtain compressed pulses as short as 6 fsecread more
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Optical pulse compression with diffraction gratings
TL;DR: In this paper, the theory of the diffraction grating pair was developed by expanding the frequency dependence of the phase shift as far as the quadratic frequency term, and the analogy between pulse compression and Fresnel diffraction was treated.
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Negative dispersion using pairs of prisms.
TL;DR: It is shown that pairs of prisms can have negative group-velocity dispersion in the absence of any negative material dispersion.
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Generation of optical pulses as short as 27 femtoseconds directly from a laser balancing self-phase modulation, group-velocity dispersion, saturable absorption, and saturable gain
TL;DR: An ultrasbort-pulse laser is described that, under specific operating conditions, balances the mechanisms of conventional passive mode locking and solitonlike pulse shaping in a single resonator to generate optical pulses that are to the authors' knowledge the shortest yet emitted directly from a laser.
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Compression of femtosecond optical pulses
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the generation and measurement of optical pulses as short as 30 fs. The pulses are produced using self-phase modulation in a short 15 cm optical fiber followed by a grating compressor.
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Spectral hole burning in large molecules probed with 10 fs optical pulses
TL;DR: In this paper, optical pulses with a duration of 10 fs were used to investigate dynamic spectral hole burning and the equilibration of an optically induced non-thermal population distribution of large molecules in solution.