Parabolic temporal lensing and spectrotemporal imaging: A femtosecond optical oscilloscope

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Mansuryan, Tigran ^a   Zeytunyan, Aram ^a   Kalashyan, Meri ^a   Yesayan, Garegin ^a   Mouradian, Levon ^a   Louradour, Frédéric ^b   Barthélémy, Alain ^b  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE MODULATION;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; NONLINEAR DISPERSIVE; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PHASE MODULATED; SELF-REFERENCES; SPECTRAL COMPRESSION; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION;

CATHODE RAY OSCILLOSCOPES;

EID: 50449100996     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.00A101     Document Type: Article

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