Optimizing spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Stibenz, Gero ^a   Steinmeyer, Günter ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC-FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; FEW-CYCLE REGIME; PLANAR GEOMETRY; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 33746799672     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2221511     Document Type: Article

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