Highly simplified device for measuring the intensity and phase of picosecond pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 17484-17497

  Cohen, Jacob ^a   Lee, Dongjoo ^b   Chauhan, Vikrant ^a   Vaughan, Peter ^a   Trebino, Rick ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Swamp Optics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PULSE MEASUREMENTS; SECOND-HARMONIC; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

PHASE MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PULSE RATE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PULSE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955616916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017484     Document Type: Article

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