Spatiotemporal amplitude-and-phase reconstruction by Fourier-transform of interference spectra of high-complex-beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 933-940

  Alonso, Benjamín ^a   Sola, Íñigo J ^a   Varela, Óscar ^a   Hernández Toro, Juan ^a   Méndez, Cruz ^b   Román, Julio San ^a   Zaïr, Amelle ^a   Roso, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE LÁSERES PULSADOS CLPU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETERS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REPAIR;

CHIRPED PULSE; CONVERGENT BEAMS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FIBER-OPTIC COUPLERS; INTERFEROMETER SYSTEMS; NOVEL METHODS; PHASE RECONSTRUCTION; PLANE WAVE; REFERENCE BEAMS; SINGLE POINT; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRA-SHORT LASER PULSE;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 77955668155     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000933     Document Type: Article

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