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We apply femtosecond pulse shaping techniques[l,2] for electronically programmable phase filtering of broadband incoherent light at 1.5 µm. Pulse shaping applied to incoherent light results in tailoring of the electric field coherence function, in contrast to the pulse intensity and phase profile, as in the usual coherent femtosecond pulse shaping experiments. Our results may have applications in broadband communications using coherence coding for time-division multiplexed data transmission[3] or code-division networking[4] as well as in time-resolved spectroscopy using incoherent light.
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Binjrajka, V., Chang, CC., Emanuel, A.W.R., Leaird, D.E., Weiner, A.M. (1996). “Pulse Shaping” of Incoherent Light by Use of a Liquid Crystal Modulator Array. In: Barbara, P.F., Fujimoto, J.G., Knox, W.H., Zinth, W. (eds) Ultrafast Phenomena X. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80314-7_11
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