Frequency-resolved optical gating measurement of ultrashort pulses passing through a high numerical aperture objective

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 479-486

  Fittinghoff, David N ^a,c,d   Millard, Andrew C ^a,e,f   Squier, Jeffrey A ^a,g   Müller, Michiel ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Molecular Cell Biology   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING (FROG);

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032689932     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.753652     Document Type: Article

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