Real-time inversion of polarization gate frequency-resolved optical gating spectrograms

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1140-1144

  Kane, Daniel J ^a   Weston, Jeremy ^b   Chu, Kai Chien J ^b  

^a Southwest Sciences   (United States)

^b Positive Light   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATINGS (FROG);

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0037455662     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001140     Document Type: Article

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