title: Pulse shaping of incoherent light by use of a liquid-crystal modulator array.
abstract: We demonstrate the use of a femtosecond pulse-shaping apparatus for electronically programmable phase filtering of amplified spontaneous emission from an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. Pulse shaping applied to a broadband incoherent light (noise) input results in reshaped noise, with a specially tailored electric field correlation function. Our experiments clearly reveal that phase filtering can strongly affect the coherence properties of broadband, phase-incoherent light.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Binjrajka
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Emanuel
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Leaird
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Weiner