Using GaAsP photodiodes to characterize ultrashort pulses under high numerical aperture focusing in microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 179-181

  Millard, A C ^a   Fittinghoff, D N ^b   Squier, J A ^b   Muller M ^c   Gaeta, A L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Institute for Molecular Cell Biology   (Netherlands)

^d Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Dispersion; High numerical aperture (NA); Photodiode; Prechirping; Two photon; Ultrashort pulse

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ALLOYS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM ALLOYS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AUTO CORRELATION; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURE SYSTEMS; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; PHOTON RESPONSE; PRECHIRPING; SPATIAL PROFILES; TEMPORAL PROFILE; TWO PHOTON; ULTRASHORT-PULSE;

PHOTODIODES;

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; DIODE; LASER; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPE; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033006607     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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