Complete characterization of optical pulses by real-time spectral interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 7862-7866

  Berger, Naum K ^a   Levit, Boris ^a   Smulakovsky, Vladimir ^a   Fischer, Baruch ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; PHOTODETECTORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL PULSES; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; TEMPORAL INTERFERENCE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 32344450413     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007862     Document Type: Article

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