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M Lõhmus1, P Bowlan, P Piksarv
1Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. madisl@ut.ee
Optics Letters
|April 3, 2012
Abstract:
The complete spatiotemporal characterization of the diffracted field of ultrashort pulses after passing through circularly symmetric binary phase diffraction gratings is carried out. The complex field is registered at different planes behind the gratings with an ultrashort-pulse measurement technique called SEA TADPOLE. Numerical simulations based on scalar diffraction theory are compared with the measurements.
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