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Optics Letters

Self-referenced temporal phase reconstruction from intensity measurements using causality arguments in linear optical filters

Mohammad H. Asghari, José Azaña

Published Aug 22, 2012• 16 citations
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Abstract

We introduce and numerically demonstrate a simple and general concept for direct reconstruction of the temporal phase profile of an optical signal from temporal intensity measurements at the input and output of an arbitrary linear optical filter. The concept is based on exploiting the linearity and causality properties of any physical filter. Very few restrictions need to be imposed on the optical filter response to ensure an unambiguous phase reconstruction. The filter can be specifically designed to minimize the noise influence on the measurement process.

DOI
10.1364/ol.37.003582

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