Design and calibration of zero-additional-phase SPIDER

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1875-1883

  Baum, Peter ^a   Riedle, Eberhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

PULSE DURATION; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY FOR DIRECT ELECTRIC FIELD RECONSTRUCTION (SPIDER); SPECTRAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRASHORT OPTICAL PULSES; ZERO-ADDITIONAL-PHASE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 25444444760     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001875     Document Type: Article

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