To extend SEA TADPOLE to the measurement of even more complex pulses in time, we can use multiple copies of the reference pulse, each arriving at a different time and measuring a different temporal component of the pulse, in a technique we call MUD TADPOLE. This maintains the high temporal resolution, but multiplies the measurable temporal range and spectral resolution by the number of reference pulses.  Below is one implementation of it.

MUD TADPOLE has measured a pulse with a time-bandwidth product (TBP) of 65,000 (see below). This is the most complex ultrashort pulse ever measured.

Pulses measured by MUD TADPOLE can be so complex that there aren't enough pixels on your screen to display them, so a movie is necessary to show all the details, as you can see above.

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