Spatially resolved characterization of sub-4-fs laser pulses using spatially encoded spectral shearing interferometry

Author

Witting, Tobias ; Frank, Felix ; Arrell, Chris ; Okell, William ; Marangos, Jon P. ; Tisch, John W G

Author_Institution

Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll., London, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Here we report the spatially resolved characterization of 3.5 fs pulses generated in a single stage differentially pumped hollow core fiber pulse compression system. We characterize the compressed pulses with SEA-SPIDER. We envisage our characterization method to be very useful in identifying spatial dependencies in few-cycle pulses generated in nonlinear pulse compressors and optimization of their performance.

Keywords

laser beams; light interferometry; nonlinear optics; optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; direct electric field reconstruction; few-cycle pulse generation; nonlinear pulse compressors; pulse compression; single stage differentially pumped hollow core fiber; spatially encoded spectral shearing interferometry; spatially resolved characterization; Energy measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943046

Filename

5943046