Theory and design of two-dimensional spectral shearing interferometry for few-cycle pulse measurement

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1165-1173

  Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Crespo, Helder M ^b   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FS PULSE; MEASUREMENT TIME; NOISE PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL CHOICE; PULSE CHARACTERIZATION; SPECTRAL PHASE INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTRAL SHEARING; SPECTRAL SHEARING INTERFEROMETRY;

SHEARING;

EID: 77955694658     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001165     Document Type: Article

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