Abstract
It has recently been pointed out that incoherent light can be used to generate coherent optical transients and that there are decided advantages in using such a broadband nonlaser source to achieve very high time resolution.1'2 When a light pulse and its time-delayed replica interact with a sample to produce the nonlinear optical response, the ultimate time resolution should identify with the correlation time τc of the light field rather than with the pulse duration τL.
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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