The main contributions of this thesis to the field of ultrashort pulse measurement are a new set of experimental tools to measure the spatio-temporal fields of femtosecond pulses, and a new simplified formalism to describe ...

In this thesis a powerful and practical method for characterizing ultrashort pulses in space and time is described (called SEA TADPOLE). First we focus on measuring pulses that are spatially uniform but very complicated ...

The thesis is devoted to the study of spontaneous synchronization of coupled nonlinear oscillators. It consists of two major parts. The first describes synchronization of Josephson junctions embedded in a transmission ...