Concepts for the temporal characterization of short optical pulses

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1541-1553

  Dorrer, Christophe ^a   Walmsley, Ian A ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Optical pulse characterization; Spectrogram; Time frequency distribution; Tomography; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PULSE CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTROGRAM; TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; WIGNER FUNCTION;

INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 27844534755     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1541     Document Type: Article

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