Femtosecond Optical Pulse Shaping and Processing

2.4. 2.5. 2.6. Pulse shaping by linear filtering Picosecond pulse shaping Fourier synthesis of femtosecond optical waveforms 2.3.1. Fixed masks fabricated using microlithography 2.3.2. Spatial light modulators (SLMs) for programmable pulse shaping 2.3.2.1. Pulse shaping using liquid crystal modulator arrays 2.3.2.2. Pulse shaping using acousto-optic deflectors 2.3.3. Movable and deformable mirrors for special purpose pulse shaping 2.3.4. Holographic masks 2.3.5. Amplification of spectrally dispersed broadband laser pulses Theoretical considerations Pulse shaping by phase-only filtering An alternate Fourier synthesis pulse shaping technique 3. Additional Pulse Shaping Methods 3.1. Additional passive pulse shaping techniques 3. I. 1. Pulse shaping using delay lines and interferometers 3.1.2. Pulse shaping using volume holography 3.1.3. Pulse shaping using integrated acousto-optic tunable filters 3.1.4. Atomic and molecular pulse shaping 3.2. Active Pulse Shaping Techniques 3.2.1. Non-linear optical gating 3.2.2. Pulse shaping by temporal stretching and modulation 3.2.3. Pulse shaping using electro-optic phase modulation 3.2.4. Pulse processing using time-domain lenses 3.2.5. Pulse synthesis using separate phase-locked laser oscillators 4. Holographic Processing of Ultrashort Pulses 4.1. Spectral holography 4.1. I. Principles of spectral holography for time-domain signal processing 4.1.2. Experimental studies of femtosecond spectral holography 4.1.2.1. Spectral holography of time-delayed pulses 4.1.2.2. Spectral holography of phase-modulated pulses 4.1.2.3. Matched filtering 4. I .2.4. Discussion 4. I .3. Space-to-time and time-to-space conversions using spectral holography 4.1.4. Nanosecond spectral holography 4.2. Time-domain holography 4.3. Pulse processing by spectral hole burning and photon echoes 4.4. Pulse processing by non-linear interactions of chirped pulses in optical fibers 5. Applications of Pulse Shaping 5.1. Pulse shaping in ultrafast non-linear fiber optics 5.1.1. Dark optical solitons 5.1.2. Complex solitons 5. I .3. Ultrafast all-optical switching 5.1.4. Fiber and grating pulse compression 5.2. Pulse shaping for optical communications networks 5.2.1. Pulse shaping for time-division multiplexing (TDM) 5.2.2. Pulse shaping for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) 5.2.3. Pulse shaping for code-division multiple-access (CDMA) 5.3. Pulse shaping for chirped pulse amplification