Unique phase retrieval of ultrashort optical pulses with well-separated frequency components
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Hause, Alexander; Seifert, Birger; Mitschke, Fedor
- Source
- 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on. :1-3 Sep, 2010
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Optical pulse generation
Optical interferometry
Pulse measurements
Spectrogram
Phase measurement
Dispersion
Chirp
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
We present a cross-correlation technique for measuring amplitude and phase of ultrashort laser pulses. Relative-phase ambiguities even of well-separated frequency components do not appear in our method. We demonstrate experimentally the unique characterization of pulses with spectral gaps.