Supercontinuum pulse measurement by molecular alignment based cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-46

  Liu, Jia ^a   Feng, Yahui ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Lu, Peifen ^a   Pan, Haifeng ^b   Wu, Jian ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; BIREFRINGENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PULSE GENERATORS; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CROSS-CORRELATION FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; FULL-FIELD; GENERALIZED PROJECTIONS; INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; INDUCED POLARIZATION; LINEAR PROCESS; MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT; MOLECULAR GAS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL REGION; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM PULSE; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; ULTRA-SHORT LASER PULSE; VISIBLE REGION;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

EID: 78651373983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000040     Document Type: Article

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