title: Group velocity dispersion using commercial optical design programs.
abstract: Three commercial optical design programs are used to model familiar geometries in ultrafast optics. A set of macros has been created to calculate the pulse delay, group velocity dispersion, and third-order dispersion caused by the components in an ultrafast optical system. The results correspond to published values. This opens the possibility of using the well-developed optimization routines to improve the performance of ultrafast systems.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA. doshea@prism.gatech.edu
authors.forename: Donald C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: O'Shea