Ultrashort Laser Pulses II
More second-order phaseHigher-order spectral phase distortionsRelative importance of spectrum and spectral phasePulse and spectral widthsTime-bandwidth product
Prof. Rick TrebinoGeorgia Tech
Frequency-domain phase expansion
Recall the Taylor series for ():
As in the time domain, only the first few terms are typically required to describe well-behaved pulses. Of course, we’ll consider badly behaved pulses, which have higher-order terms in ().
where
is the group dela ...