Stereopsis-inspired time-stretched amplified real-time spectrometer (STARS)

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1693-1701

  Asghari, Mohammad H ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

complex field optical signal characterization; continuous optical signal processing; Optical vector spectrum analyzer (VSA); ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; DIGITIZERS; DYNAMIC RANGE; INPUT SIGNAL; NON-ITERATIVE; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PHASE PROFILE; PHASE RECONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REFERENCE SIGNALS; SINGLE-SHOT; TEMPORAL PHASE; TIME VARYING; ULTRA-SMALL; ULTRAFAST OPTICS; VECTOR SPECTRUM ANALYZER;

BINOCULAR VISION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84866138495     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2213588     Document Type: Article

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