Measuring temporally complex ultrashort pulses using multiple-delay crossed-beam spectral interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6583-6597

  Cohen, Jacob ^a   Bowlan, Pamela ^a   Chauhan, Vikrant ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROMETER; LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTROMETER; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SOFTWARE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950275229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006583     Document Type: Article

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