Optical cross-correlator based on supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2512-2519

  Filip, Catalin V ^a,b   Tóth, Csaba ^a   Leemans, Wim P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SCANNING;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; FEMTOSECOND WHITE-LIGHT GENERATION; OPTICAL CROSS-CORRELATOR; SINGLE-SHOT EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; WIDE WAVELENGTH RANGE;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 33645046120     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002512     Document Type: Article

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