Coherent Time-Stretch Transform for Near-Field Spectroscopy

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  DeVore, Peter T S ^a   Buckley, Brandon W ^a   Asghari, Mohammad H ^a   Solli, Daniel R ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

absorption spectroscopy instrumentation; complex field optical signal characterization; optical signal processing; optical vector spectrum analyzer; temporal near field; time resolved spectroscopy; Ultrafast measurements; ultrashort pulse characterization

Indexed keywords

LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; SPECTROSCOPY INSTRUMENTATION; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST MEASUREMENTS; ULTRASHORT PULSE CHARACTERIZATION; VECTOR SPECTRUM ANALYZER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84914120434     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2312949     Document Type: Article

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