Dispersion-compensating beam shaper for femtosecond optical vortex beams.
A beam shaper suitable for sub-20 fs pulses based on a prism pair and a computer-generated hologram was developed to produce vortex beams. Comparatively high throughput and the ability to tune the group-velocity dispersion make this shaper suitable for pulses from femtosecond oscillators and amplifiers and where there is a need for additional postchirp or prechirp compensation.
Schwarz
Alexander
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. A.Schwarz@gmx.com
Rudolph
Wolfgang
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