DIFFRACTION-BASED PULSE SHAPING WITH A 2D OPTICAL MODULATOR

摘要

Disclosed is a method including (i) dispersing frequency components of an input EM waveform along a first direction with each frequency component spatially extended along a second direction different from the first direction, (ii) setting an amplitude for an output portion of each of the spatially extended frequency components (40, 38), and (iii) combining the output portions from the different frequency components to produce a temporally shaped output EM waveform, wherein setting the amplitude of each output portion comprises diffracting a corresponding input portion for the spatially extended frequency component along the second direction into different diffraction orders, wherein the combined output portions correspond to a common diffraction order A system for performing the method is also disclosed.