Simple and sensitive method for visual detection of temporal asymmetry of ultrashort laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1389-1396

  Sharma, Avnish Kumar ^a   Naik, Prasad Anant ^a   Gupta, Parshotam Dass ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; HARDWARE; LASER ABLATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST FEMTOSSECOND PULSES; INTENSITY CORRELATION; LASER SYSTEM; VISUAL DETECTION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 2942752329     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001389     Document Type: Article

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