Measuring pulse-front tilt in ultrashort pulse laser beams without ambiguity of its sign using single-shot tilted pulse-front autocorrelator

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 13131-13141

  Sharma, Avnish Kumar ^a   Patidar, Rajesh Kumar ^a   Raghuramaiah, Manchi ^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

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PULSE-FRONT TILT (PFT); TILTED PULSE-FRONT AUTOCORRELATOR (TPFAC); ULTRASHORT PULSE LASER BEAMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 33845753812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.013131     Document Type: Article

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