Programmable High Resolution Broadband Pulse Shaping using a 2-D VIPA-Grating Pulse Shaper with a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Spatial Light Modulator

We demonstrate programmable spectral shaping with simultaneous broad-bandwidth(>40nm) and high-resolution(<4GHz) using a 2-D VIPA-Grating pulse-shaper with a LCOS SLM. The apparatus is capable of scaling to bandwidths of 100s of nm with sub-GHz resolution.