Spatiotemporal measurements based on spatial spectral interferometry for ultrashort optical pulses shaped by a Fourier pulse shaper

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2795-2802

  Tanabe, Takasumi ^a   Tanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Teramura, Yuichi ^a   Kannari, Fumihiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

FOURIER PULSE SHAPERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0041992052     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002795     Document Type: Article

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