Appeal No. 95-1409
Application 07/966,644
autocorrelation technique employing an instantaneously responding
medium.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for measuring the intensity and phase of a
light pulse, comprising the steps of:
inputting said light pulse to form a probe pulse;
providing a gate pulse having a variable time delay;
combining said gate pulse and said probe pulse within
an instantaneously responding nonlinear medium to form a signal
pulse functionally related to a temporal slice of said probe
pulse corresponding to the time delay between said probe pulse
and said gate pulse;
inputting said signal pulse to a wavelength selective device
to output signal pulse field information comprising signal
intensity vs. frequency for a first value of said time delay; and
varying said time delay over a range of values effective to
yield an intensity plot of signal intensity vs. frequency and
delay.
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Rick Trebino et al. (Trebino), “Chirp and self-phase modulation
in induced-grating autocorrelation measurements of ultrashort
pulses,” Optics Letters, Vol. 15, No. 19, (October 1, 1990),
pp. 1079-1081.
Claims 1, 3 through 5, 7, 8, 10 and 14 through 19 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Trebino.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants or the
Examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for the
details thereof.
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