High precision self-referenced phase retrieval of complex pulses with multiple-shearing spectral interferometry

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1818-1830

  Austin, Dane R ^a   Witting, Tobias ^a   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SHEARING; SHEARING MACHINES;

ARBITRARY NUMBER; HIGH-PRECISION; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; PHASE RETRIEVAL; PHASE-RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; RESOLVING PHASE AMBIGUITY; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTRAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 70249122362     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.001818     Document Type: Article

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