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An electro–optic scheme for sampling the electric field of laser pulses without the need for any synchronization could become a valuable tool for characterizing sources that emit in the infrared and terahertz regions.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the relation between the signal radiation, probe pulse and sampled signal.

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  1. Shunsuke Kono is at the Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC, 34 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8501, Japan. s-kouno@cq.jp.nec.com,

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Kono, S. Sampling without synchronization. Nature Photon 1, 564–565 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.181

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