Complex-field measurement of ultrafast dynamic optical waveforms based on real-time spectral interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16526-16538

  Asghari, Mohammad H ^a   Park, Yongwoo ^a   Azaña, José ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

COMPLEX FIELDS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL WAVEFORM; PHASE PROFILE; PICOSECOND RANGE; SINGLE-SHOT; SINGLE-SHOT MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRA-FAST DYNAMICS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955598655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016526     Document Type: Article

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