Measurement of 10-fs laser pulses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 575-584

  Taft, Greg ^a,c,d   Rundquist, Andy ^a,c,d   Murnane, Margaret M ^a,e   Christov, Ivan P ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a   DeLong, Kenneth W ^b   Fittinghoff, David N ^b   Krumbügel, Marco A ^b   Sweetser, John N ^b   Trebino, Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Global Business Leadership Department   (United States)

^e IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FREQUENCY RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING (FROG);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0030230123     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.571757     Document Type: Article

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