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Optical pulse compression with diffraction gratings
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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.Abstract:
The theory of the diffraction grating pair is developed by expanding the frequency dependence of the phase shift as far as the quadratic frequency term. The analogy between pulse compression and Fresnel diffraction is treated. The effect of the cubic phase term is discussed for ultrashort pulses having appreciable fractional bandwidth.read more
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Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses
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Deep tissue two-photon microscopy
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Femtosecond pulse shaping using spatial light modulators
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Optics in the relativistic regime
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Pulse Compression-Key to More Efficient Radar Transmission
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