Abstract

Considerable progress has been made in developing techniques for generating ultrashort pulses with arbitrarily controllable pulse shapes [1-3]. Nevertherless, it has not generally been possible to achieve both high resolution and precision [1] and electronic programmability [2] simultaneously. In this paper we describe a programmable, high resolution, fsec pulse shaping apparatus based on a multielement liquid crystal phase modulator. Applications include fsec pulse position modulation and programmable fsec pulse compression.

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