Ultrashort pulses with time durations on the femtosecond scale can be suitably processed by microoptical devices. The temporal impulse response of an element is determined by its spatial structure, its action in the temporal domain can be conveniently described by its impulse response. All categories of elements can be used: refractive, diffractive and reflective. Here, the basic concepts are discussed and several examples for shaping and filtering short pulses are presented.

Date Published: 22 August 2017
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 10453, Third International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, 1045320 (22 August 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2275125

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10453:
Third International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics
Manuel Filipe P. C. M. Martins Costa, Editor(s)