Shaper-assisted collinear SPIDER: Fast and simple broadband pulse compression in nonlinear microscopy

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1091-1100

  von Vacano, Bernhard ^a   Buckup, Tiago ^a   Motzkus, Marcus ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE CONTROL; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

BROADBAND PULSE COMPRESSION; ELECTRIC FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL GATING MEASUREMENT;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 34250757126     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.001091     Document Type: Article

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