Jung-Ho Chung & Andrew M. Weiner

CERIAS TR 2002-01

article

We construct several examples of distinct asymmetric-symmetric pulse pairs with identical or essentially identical intensity autocorrelations and power spectra. From these examples we infer that pulse retrieval methods based on these two data sets alone produce ambiguous solutions. Furthermore, we used the constructed pulse pairs as test cases to assess the degree of difference in the corresponding interferometric autocorrelations. In several cases we found that the differences in the interferometric autocorrelations are sufficiently small that they might be quite challenging to distinguish in a practical experimental context.

PDF

2001 – August

Piscataway, NJ

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

CERIAS

Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Chung

4

IEEE

656-666

IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society

Purdue University

7

Electrical and Computer Engineering

1900-01-01

1. Introduction 2. Description of our approach 3. Reconstruction results 4. Comparison of interferometric autocorrelations 5. Conclusion

IEEE

English