Ultrashort-pulse characterization from dynamic spectrograms by iterative phase retrieval

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 944-949

  Wong, Victor ^a   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 0031506210     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.000944     Document Type: Article

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