Pulse compression by use of deformable mirrors.
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.
Zeek
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Maginnis
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K
Backus
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Russek
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Murnane
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M
Mourou
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Kapteyn
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Vdovin
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