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Optics Letters

Measurement of photon echoes by use of femtosecond Fourier-transform spectral interferometry

J.-P. Likforman, M. Joffre, Veronique Thierry-Mieg

Published Jul 15, 1997• 75 citations
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Abstract

Using Fourier-transform spectral interferometry, we demonstrate the measurement of both amplitude and phase of photon echoes in GaAs multiple-quantum-well structures. The complete measurement of the electric field thus achieved makes possible the determination of the corresponding Wigner spectrograms.
DOI
10.1364/ol.22.001104

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