Comment on: Novel method for ultrashort laser pulse-width measurement based on the self-diffraction effect
13 January 2003
A new technique for the measurement of the pulse-width of ultrashort optical pulses has been recently proposed{[}1]. I argue in this comment that such a technique is unable to get any temporal information on an ultrashort pulse, based on the absence of a time-non-stationary element in the proposed setup. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.