Directly measuring the spatio-temporal electric field of focusing ultrashort pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10219-10230

  Bowlan, Pamela ^a   Gabolde, Pablo ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; CHROMATIC DISPERSION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34547776317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010219     Document Type: Article

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