Wigner spectrograms for femtosecond pulse-shaped heterodyne and autocorrelation measurements

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1278-1288

  Mukamel, Shaul ^a,b,c,d,e   Ciordas Ciurdariu, Calin ^a,f,g   Khidekel, Vadim ^a,b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^g Institute for Physical Chemistry

^h ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODYNING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTROSCOPY;

FEMTOSECOND PULSE SHAPED HETERODYNE; PUMP PROBE SPECTROSCOPY; WIGNER SPECTROGRAMS;

ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

EID: 0030211901     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.511539     Document Type: Article

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