Abstract
While FROG, and especially GRENOUILLE, can measure pulses with picojoule and potentially 10- to 100-femtojoule energies, many experiments generate even weaker pulses. The difficulty in trying to measure weaker pulses with FROG, and indeed in with any potential method for measuring an isolated pulse, is the need for the nonlinear-optical process [1,2].
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Fittinghoff, D.N. (2000). Measuring Ultraweak Pulses: TADPOLE. In: Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1181-6_22
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