Femtosecond phase spectroscopy by use of frequency-domain interference

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 753-771

  Tokunaga, Eiji ^a   Terasaki, Akira ^a   Kobayashi, Takayoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; DISPERSIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GLASS; PHASE MODULATION; PROBES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

AMPLITUDE AND PHASE MODULATIONS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; LINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; TIME-RESOLVED DATA; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTRA; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE;

KRAMERS-KRONIG RELATIONS;

EID: 4243691870     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.12.000753     Document Type: Article

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