A femtosecond pulse-shaping apparatus containing microlens arrays for use with pixellated spatial light modulators

被引:4
作者
Mahoney, KM
Weiner, AM
机构
[1] Sch. of Elec. and Comp. Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette
[2] Ohio University, Athens, OH
[3] Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
[4] Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
[5] Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA
[6] Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1109/3.544752
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We discuss a modified femtosecond pulse shaper that uses microlens arrays to convert the continuous band of frequencies normally obtained at the mask plane of a pulse shaper to a series of discrete spots. Two possible modified pulse-shaping geometries are described and the optimum geometry is chosen. Our experiments demonstrate that this modification can improve pulse-shaping quality when modulator arrays with large interpixel gaps are used for Fourier-plane filtering.
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页码:2071 / 2077
页数:7
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