Spatio-temporal focusing of an ultrafast pulse through a multiply scattering medium

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  McCabe, David J ^a   Tajalli, Ayhan ^a   Austin, Dane R ^b,c   Bondareff, Pierre ^d   Walmsley, Ian A ^b   Gigan, Sylvain ^d   Chatel, Béatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMTOSECOND LASER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INTERFEROMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECKLE FIELD; ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PULSE;

EID: 80052395146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1434     Document Type: Article

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