A femtosecond pulse-shaping apparatus containing microlens arrays for use with pixellated spatial light modulators

Author

Mahoney, Keith M. ; Weiner, Andrew M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

32

Issue

12

fYear

1996

fDate

12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2071

Lastpage

2077

Abstract

We discuss a modified femtosecond pulse shaper that uses microlens arrays to convert the continuous band of frequencies normally obtained at the mask plane of a pulse shaper to a series of discrete spots. Two possible modified pulse-shaping geometries are described and the optimum geometry is chosen. Our experiments demonstrate that this modification can improve pulse-shaping quality when modulator arrays with large interpixel gaps are used for Fourier-plane filtering

Keywords

arrays; high-speed optical techniques; lenses; spatial filters; spatial light modulators; Fourier-plane filtering; continuous band; femtosecond pulse-shaping apparatus; large interpixel gaps; mask plane; microlens arrays; optimum geometry; pixellated spatial light modulators; pulse-shaping geometries; spatial filters; Lenses; Microoptics; Optical arrays; Optical modulation; Optical pulse shaping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.544752

Filename

544752