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Ultrafast laser pulses are dynamic and so are ultrafast laser experiments and ultrafast laser systems. So why do you think simply inverting ONE FROG trace will provide you with all the information you need? Will one FROG trace tell you all you need to know about your experiment and ultrafast laser system? NO!! At Mesa Photonics, we don’t believe in the “One FROG trace” experiment, and we don’t think you should either. That’s why we developed a software package that combines real-time data acquisition with real-time analysis to give you unprecedented information about your ultrafast laser system and your experiment. The 20 Hz video rate (30 Hz on most of the faster computers) is perfect for tweaking systems to their best performance. You would think that retrieving pulses this fast compromises accuracy, but it isn’t true! Check out our results page for examples. See our theory of FROG page for more information on FROG. For VideoFROG specifications, click here. For a demo version of VideoFROG, click here.
What is the technology behind VideoFROG? VideoFROG not only records the FROG trace from the video camera using a high-quality frame grabber, but VideoFROG displays the raw FROG trace with uncompromised resolution, preprocesses the FROG trace, readies it for the inversion algorithm, retrieves the pulse characteristics from it, and plots the result in the blink of an eye. (For more information look over the users manual.) Now Version 7.0 includes full spatio-temporal calculations with 3D plotting. In addition,Version 7 has a new, simplified user interface that allows simultaneous viewing of the temporal and spatial cameras for easy alignment. Interfacing with other programs is easy too. See how we can close a control loop with a pulse shaper using VideoFROG.
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