Practical measurement of femtosecond pulses using time-resolved optical gating

IG Cormack; Wilson Sibbett; DT Reid

doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01281-0

Practical measurement of femtosecond pulses using time-resolved optical gating

IG Cormack, Wilson Sibbett, DT Reid

School of Physics and Astronomy

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We report a practical experimental implementation of time-resolved optical gating (TROG) using a dispersive pulse (DP) propagation geometry and a two-photon absorption nonlinear detector. A measurement of 50 fs pulses from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser is demonstrated and a general procedure for calibrating the dispersion axis of the TROG trace is presented. A complete iterative pulse retrieval algorithm is described and the limitations of the DP-TROG technique are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	415-423
Number of pages	10
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	194
Issue number	4-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01281-0
Publication status	Published - 15 Jul 2001

Keywords

optical pulse measurements
pulse characterization
ultrafast optics
time-resolved optical gating
femtosecond
HIGH-AVERAGE-POWER
ULTRASHORT-PULSE
LIGHT-PULSES
MU-M
DISPERSIVE PROPAGATION
2-PHOTON ABSORPTION
LASER-PULSES
PHASE
AUTOCORRELATION
OSCILLATOR

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Practical measurement of femtosecond pulses using time-resolved optical gating

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