Pulse compression by use of deformable mirrors
- 1 April 1999
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 24 (7) , 493-495
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.24.000493
Abstract
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.Keywords
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