Pulse compression by use of deformable mirrors

被引:241
作者
Zeek, E [1 ]
Maginnis, K
Backus, S
Russek, U
Murnane, M
Mourou, G
Kapteyn, H
Vdovin, G
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Ctr Ultrafast Opt Sci, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] Delft Univ Technol, NL-2600 GA Delft, Netherlands
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10.1364/OL.24.000493
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
An electrostatically deformable, gold-coated, silicon nitride membrane mirror was used as a phase modulator to compress pulses from 92 to 15 fs. Both an iterative genetic algorithm and single-step dispersion compensation based on frequency-resolved optical gating calibration of the mirror were used to-compress pulses to within 10% of the transform limit. Frequency-resolved optical gating was used to characterize the pulses and to test the range of the deformable-mirror-based compressor. (C) 1999 Optical Society of America.
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页码:493 / 495
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