Measuring ultrashort optical pulses in the presence of noise: An empirical study of the performance of spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 883-893

  Jensen, Steven ^a   Anderson, Matthew E ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIRECT ELECTRIC FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRASHORT PULSES MEASUREMENT;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 1142279532     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000883     Document Type: Article

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