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Dispersion control over 150 THz with chirped dielectric mirrors

Tempea et al., 1998

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13732375079626334908
Author
Tempea G
Krausz F
Spielmann C
Ferencz K
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IEEE Journal of selected topics in quantum electronics

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Ultrabroad-band chirped multilayer dielectric mirrors providing nearly constant negative group delay dispersion over the wavelength range of 640-950 nm and high reflectance between 590 and 970 nm are demonstrated. A key to this performance has been an …
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