1. US20170234736 - Device and method for characterization of a light beam to determine space time couplings in the light beam using a two-dimensional interference pattern formed by the light beam and a fourier transform

A characterization method of a light beam includes separating the light beam into first and second sub-beams; propagating the first and second sub-beams over first and second optics respectively; the first sub-beam, which forms a reference beam, and the second sub-beam, which forms a characterized beam, being separated by a time delay τ; recombining the reference and characterized beams so that they spatially interfere and form a two-dimensional interference pattern; measuring the pattern to obtain a temporal interferogram; calculating the Fourier transform in the frequency domain of a spatial point of the interferogram, the Fourier transform having a frequency central peak and first and second frequency side peaks; calculating the Fourier transform in the frequency domain for the first or second time side peaks calculating the spectral amplitude and the spatial-spectral phase for the first or second frequency side peak of the Fourier transform in the frequency domain.