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Measuring the seemingly immeasurable

This year celebrates the twentieth anniversary of frequency-resolved optical gating — the first and most general technique for measuring ultrashort laser pulses.

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Figure 1: FROG and GRENOUILLE.
Figure 2: SEA TADPOLE, a simple version of spectral interferometry.
Figure 3: STRIPED FISH.

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Trebino, R. Measuring the seemingly immeasurable. Nature Photon 5, 189–192 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.41

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