Interference without an interferometer: A different approach to measuring, compressing, and shaping ultrashort laser pulses

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Coello, Yves ^a   Lozovoy, Vadim V ^a   Gunaratne, Tissa C ^a   Xu, Bingwei ^a   Borukhovich, Ian ^b   Tseng, Chien Hung ^b   Weinacht, Thomas ^b   Dantus, Marcos ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS; COHERENT CONTROL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FUNCTION OF TIME; INTERFERENCE PHASE; MULTIPHOTONS; PERFECT MATCHES;

OPTICAL PULSE SHAPING;

EID: 47249098891     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.00A140     Document Type: Article

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