A. Dreischuh et al., EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF PULSE SHAPING AND SHORTENING BY SPATIAL-FILTERING OF AN INDUCED-PHASE-MODULATED PROBE WAVE, IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 33(3), 1997, pp. 329-335
An asymmetrically induced phase modulation resulting in an intensity-d
ependent spatial beam deflection and a subsequent spatial filtering ha
ve been used for all-optical pulse shaping and shortening. A compressi
on factor of eight and controllable symmetrical super-Gaussian pulses
and pulse trains have been observed in a good agreement with precious
analyses in a pump-probe beam configuration.