Characterization of mid-infrared femtosecond pulses [Invited]

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Lee, Kevin F ^a,b   Kubarych, Kevin J ^a,b,c   Bonvalet, Adeline ^a,b   Joffre, Manuel ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ELECTROOPTIC SAMPLING; FREQUENCY-RESOLVED OPTICAL GATINGS; LINEAR METHODS; MID-INFRARED PULSE; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY FOR DIRECT ELECTRIC FIELD; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS; UP-CONVERSION; VISIBLE LIGHT;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 50449107541     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000A54     Document Type: Review

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