Recent progress toward real-time measurement of ultrashort laser pulses

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 421-431

  Kane, Daniel J ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING (FROG); PULSE MEASUREMENT;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0032690358     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.753647     Document Type: Article

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