Pulse-front tilt caused by spatial and temporal chirp

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 4399-4410

  Akturk, Selcuk ^a   Gu, Xun ^a   Zeek, Erik ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER PULSES; PROBLEM SOLVING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ANGULAR DISPERSION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DISTORTIONS; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICS;

EID: 6344240516     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004399     Document Type: Article

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