Pushing the frontiers: generation and full characterization of pulses in the two-cycle regime

Author

Steinmeyer, G. ; Sutter, D.H. ; Gallmann, L. ; Matuschek, N. ; Morier-Genoud, F. ; Keller, U.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Quantum Electron., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

892

Abstract

We present an extensive comparison of techniques capable of characterizing sub-6-fs pulses from a laser. Apart from the traditional characterization by autocorrelation and measuring the spectrum, we use novel variants of spectral interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction (SPIDER) and frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) that have been optimized for use with pulses of extreme bandwidth. Both of these techniques allow for a full characterization of the pulses, i.e., they reconstruct pulse amplitude and phase

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser variables measurement; pulse measurement; 6 fs; FROG; SPIDER; autocorrelation; frequency-resolved optical gating; spectral interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction; spectrum measurement; two-cycle laser pulses; Bandwidth; Character generation; Delay; Mirrors; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.812022

Filename

812022