CHRONOCYCLIC TOMOGRAPHY FOR MEASURING THE AMPLITUDE AND PHASE-STRUCTURE OF OPTICAL PULSES

Authors
BECK M RAYMER MG WALMSLEY IA WONG V
Citation
M. Beck et al., CHRONOCYCLIC TOMOGRAPHY FOR MEASURING THE AMPLITUDE AND PHASE-STRUCTURE OF OPTICAL PULSES, Optics letters, 18(23), 1993, pp. 2041-2043
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
18
Issue
23
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2041 - 2043
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1993)18:23<2041:CTFMTA>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We describe a new method-chronocyclic tomography-for determining the a mplitude and phase structure of a short optical pulse. The technique i s based on measurements of the energy spectrum of the pulse after it h as passed through a time-frequency-domain imaging system. Tomographic inversion of these measured spectra yields the time-frequency Wigner d istribution of the pulse, which uniquely determines the amplitude and phase structure.