Temporal-imaging system with simple externalclock triggering

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 14262-14269

  Broaddus, Daniel H ^a   Foster, Mark A ^a   Kuzucu, Onur ^a   Turner Foster, Amy C ^a   Koch, Karl W ^b   Lipson, Michal ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER);

FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; MAGNIFICATION FACTORS; PUMP LASER; SINGLE-SHOT OPERATION; TEMPORAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL WAVEFORMS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; RADIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RADIATION; TIME;

EID: 77953835986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014262     Document Type: Article

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