High-fidelity line-by-line optical waveform generation and complete characterization using FROG

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 9977-9988

  Scott, R P ^a   Fontaine, N K ^a   Cao, Jing ^a   Okamoto, Katsu ^a   Kolner, B H ^a   Heritage, J P ^a   Yoo, S J Ben ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CONTROL; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SILICA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

FROG; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 34547738001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009977     Document Type: Article

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