Nontrivial ambiguities for blind frequency-resolved optical gating and the problem of uniqueness

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1089-1097

  Seifert, Birger ^a   Stolz, Heinrich ^a   Tasche, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FREQUENCY RESOLVED OPTICAL GATING; NONLINEAR AMBIGUITIES; OPTICAL GATING TRACES; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL SIGNALS;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 10044268579     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001089     Document Type: Article

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