Measurement of the root-mean-square width and the root-mean-square chirp in ultrafast optics

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 146-150

  Sorokin, Evgeni ^a   Tempea, Gabriel ^a   Brabec, Thomas ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 0034388130     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000146     Document Type: Article

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