Abstract

We have compressed the output from a $\beta$-barium borate noncollinear optical parametric amplifier to $\sim 7‐\mathrm{fs}$ pulse durations, using a micromachined deformable mirror with an efficient search algorithm. This compression method allows phase compensation of both material and gain dispersion, which produces an optimized wavelength-tunable pulse shape for ultrahigh-resolution time-domain spectroscopy.

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