Measuring ultrafast optical pulses: Using spectral interferometry

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 28-33

  Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

DIRECT OPTICAL SPECTRAL PHASE MEASUREMENT (DOSPM); ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PULSES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0011959613     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.10.4.000028     Document Type: Article

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