Abstract

The shaping and control of ultrashort laser pulses is of growing interest and its use has been demonstrated in a wide variety of optical applications, including quantum control, high speed communications, and material characterization. Our interest is to create amplified shaped pulses in the visible regime. Pulse-shaping techniques have matured over the past few years.¹ However the power efficiency of direct shaping of an amplified ultrashort source are typically quite low. Hence, it is desirable to examine methods to compensate for such losses.

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