title: Picosecond pulse shaping by spectral phase and amplitude manipulation.
abstract: The temporal profile of ultrashort optical pulses may be tailored by physically manipulating the phase and the amplitude of frequency components that are spatially dispersed within a grating pulse compressor. Arbitrary pulse shapes may be synthesized subject only to the usual restrictions imposed by finite bandwidth and spatial resolution. We demonstrate this technique by generating a burst of evenly spaced picosecond pulses, a pulse doublet with odd field symmetry, and a burst of evenly spaced pulse doublets with odd field symmetry.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Heritage
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Weiner
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Thurston