Characterization of the spectral phase of ultrashort light pulses

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Series IV: Physics, Astrophysics

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1415-1426

  Dorrer, Christophe ^a   Joffre, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE ET BIOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Characterization; Dispersive Fourier Transform spectroscopy; FROG; Phase measurement; Sonogram; Spectral interferometry; Spectrogram; SPIDER; Tomography; Ultrashort pulse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037820729     PISSN: 12962147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1296-2147(01)01279-3     Document Type: Article

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