Real-time SPIDER: Ultrashort pulse characterization at 20 Hz

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 134-143

  Shuman, Timothy M ^a   Anderson, Matthew E ^a   Bromage, Jake ^a   Iaconis, Chris ^a   Waxer, Leon ^a   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS; UPCONVERSION; VIBRATIONAL MODES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0000768310     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000134     Document Type: Article

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