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Most optical pulse compression schemes are based on the generation of a frequency swept pulse, followed by passage through a dispersive delay line. Since the group velocity of the light is determined by its instantaneous frequency, different portions of the frequency swept pulse travel at different speeds through the delay line. If the length of the line is adjusted so that the leading edge of the pulse is delayed by just the right amount to overlap the trailing edge at the output of the delay line, the output pulse can be as short as the reciprocal of the bandwidth of the frequency sweep.
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H. Nakatsuka, D. Grischkowsky and A. C. Galant, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 910 (1981).
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Grischkowsky, D., Balant, A.C. (1982). Optical Pulse Compression with Reduced Wings. In: Eisenthal, K.B., Hochstrasser, R.M., Kaiser, W., Laubereau, A. (eds) Picosecond Phenomena III. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87864-0_32
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