Analysis and mitigation of systematic errors in spectral shearing interferometry of pulses approaching the single-cycle limit [Invited]

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRY; SHEARING; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PULSE COMPONENTS; PULSEWIDTHS; SINGLE CYCLE; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY FOR DIRECT ELECTRIC FIELD; SPECTRAL SHEARING; SPECTRAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 50449084976     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.00A111     Document Type: Article

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