Direct measurement of spectral phase for ultrashort laser pulses
Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 592-597 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.000592
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Abstract
We present an intuitive pulse characterization method that provides an accurate and direct measurement of the spectral phase of ultrashort laser pulses. The method requires the successive imposition of a set of quadratic spectral phase functions on the pulses while recording the corresponding nonlinear spectra. The second-derivative of the unknown spectral phase can be directly visualized and extracted from the experimental 2D contour plot, without any inversion algorithm or mathematical manipulation.
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OCIS Codes
(320.0320) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast optics
(320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements
ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 19, 2007
Revised Manuscript: December 16, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: December 31, 2007
Published: January 7, 2008
Citation
Vadim V. Lozovoy, Bingwei Xu, Yves Coello, and Marcos Dantus, "Direct measurement of spectral phase for ultrashort laser pulses," Opt. Express 16, 592-597 (2008)
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