Abstract
By now you’re well aware that in just ten years the measurement of ultrashort light pulses has advanced from practically impossible to nearly indispensable. FROG and related techniques see daily use in labs around the world. Moreover, FROG’s self-consistency checks have firmly established it as the gold standard of pulse measurement. In addition, a rarely touted feature of FROG is that it is a type of ultrafast BOXCAR integrator, gating only the pulse and not undesired cw backgrounds. Indeed, if your goal is to characterize a pulse, FROG is undoubtedly the right choice.
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Siders, C.W., Taylor, A.J. (2000). Multi-pulse Interferometric FROG. In: Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1181-6_24
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