title: Spherical aberration in spatial and temporal transforming lenses of femtosecond laser pulses.
abstract: We study the influence of third-order spherical aberration on the group velocity dispersion and on the propagation time delay of a plane pulse that is focused by a thin lens. Applications in refractive-diffractive propagation time delay compensation systems and in Gaussian temporal-shaped pulses are analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Juan JoséGiambiagi, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina. gmattei@df.uba.ar
authors.forename: G O
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Mattei
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gil