Optical heterodyne detected spectrograms of ultrafast nonresonant electronic responses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 652-662

  Gardecki, J A ^a   Constantine, S ^a   Zhou, Y ^a   Ziegler, L D ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETERODYNING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

SPECTROGRAMS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034410523     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000652     Document Type: Article

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