Ultrashort pulse characterisation with SHG collinear-FROG

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1169-1178

  Amat Roldán, Ivan ^a   Cormack, Iain G ^a   Loza Alvarez, Pablo ^a   Gualda, Emillo J ^b   Artigas, David ^b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FREQUENCY RESOLVED OPTICAL GATINGS (FROG); NONCOLLINEAR GEOMETRY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 2942709887     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001169     Document Type: Article

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