Tailoring a coherent control solution landscape by linear transforms of spectral phase basis

Walle van der, Peter and Offerhaus, Herman and Herek, Jennifer and Jafarpour, Aliakbar (2010) Tailoring a coherent control solution landscape by linear transforms of spectral phase basis. Optics Express, 18 (2). p. 973978. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract:	Finding an optimal phase pattern in a multidimensional solution landscape becomes easier and faster if local optima are suppressed and contour lines are tailored towards closed convex patterns. Using wideband second harmonic generation as a coherent control test case, we show that a linear combination of spectral phase basis functions can result in such improvements and also in separable phase terms, each of which can be found independently. The improved shapes are attributed to a suppressed nonlinear shear, changing the relative orientation of contour lines. The first order approximation of the process shows a simple relation between input and output phase profiles, useful for pulse shaping at ultraviolet wavelengths.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 OSA
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Optical Sciences (OS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72440
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.000973
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