Optical Spectrogram Scope Using Time-to-Two-Dimensional Space Conversion and Interferometric Time-of-Flight Cross Correlation

We demonstrate a new tool called optical spectrogram scope for visualization of a spectrogram or a scalogram of optical ultrafast phenomena. The optical spectrogram scope is constructed on the basis of the time-to-two-dimensional-space conversion technique capable of converting a set of time-varying frequency distributions into two-dimensional spatial ones.

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