Abstract

In many applications, properly shaped ultrashort optical pulses are preferred, and so far a variety of pulse shaping techniques have been studied. In most cases, these techniques have been employed to generate a transfer-limited pulse from a chirped pulse amplifier (CPA) by compensating higher-order dispersion. In order to achieve straightforward pulse shaping with high accuracy both in amplitude and phase, one must obtain the exact optical transfer function for the system. Without the detailed system descriptions, one can apply a close-loop control of pulses with an adaptive control algorithm, which have been widely used to directly optimize light-and-matter interactions.³

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