Spectral restoration for femtosecond spectral interferometry with attosecond accuracy

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1104-1117

  Yetzbacher, Michael K ^a   Courtney, Trevor L ^a   Peters, William K ^a   Kitney, Katherine A ^a   Smith, Eric Ryan ^a   Jonas, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; INTERFEROMETERS; RESTORATION; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ATOMIC LINES; ATTOSECONDS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FEMTOSECONDS; FOURIER; FOURIER-FILTERING; LINE SPREAD FUNCTIONS; PATH DIFFERENCES; PHASE DELAY; PIXELATED DETECTORS; RESTORATION ALGORITHM; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; SUBPIXEL ACCURACY;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77955694913     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.001104     Document Type: Article

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