Pulse Measurement Device

Some extremely important pulse-measurement research news:

Did you know that most modern pulse-measurement techniques still only measure the infamous coherent artifact that plagued early pulse measurements in the 1960s?  And as a result, they can’t distinguish a train of short, simple, and stable pulses from a train of long, complex, and unstable pulses.  I’ve attached an Optics Letter on this subject.  If you’re busy (and who isn’t?), just check out its two figures, which tell the whole story.  Don’t worry; GRENOUILLE doesn’t have this problem, and it can even tell you whether your pulse train is stable or not.

 For more information, check out http://www.frog.gatech.edu/news.html, the web site of Professor Rick Trebino, the inventor of FROG, GRENOUILLE, and many other techniques.

 Also on this site are tutorials, lectures, humorous stories, and complete sets of elegant Power Point lectures on Modern Physics, Optics, and Ultrafast Optics, which you can download to learn these subjects or to teach a course   http://www.frog.gatech.edu/talks.html