Frequency-to-time-assisted interferometry for full-field optical waveform measurements with picosecond resolution and microsecond record lengths

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 748-758

  Scott, Ryan P ^a   Fontaine, Nicolas K ^a,b   Geisler, David J ^a   Yoo, S J B ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

coherent communication; fiber gratings; Ultrafast measurements

Indexed keywords

COHERENT COMMUNICATION; COHERENT DETECTION; FAR-FIELD; FIBER GRATINGS; FRAUNHOFER; FULL-FIELD; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICAL FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL WAVEFORM; PICOSECOND RESOLUTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SINGLE-SHOT; SINGLE-SHOT MEASUREMENTS; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS; WAVE FORMS;

BANDWIDTH; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 84861131464     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2195483     Document Type: Article

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