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Physical Review A

Time-to-frequency mapping of optical pulses using accelerating quasi-phase-matching

Mor Konsens, Alon Bahabad

Published Feb 18, 2016• 4 citations
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Abstract

An alternative method to characterize the temporal profile of ultrafast pulses is proposed. The scheme, based on frequency conversion with tuned spatiotemporal coupling, does not require a retrieval algorithm and is single-shot based.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.93.023823

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