Polarization state characterization of ultrashort laser pulses by self-referenced tomographic reconstruction

Author

Schlup, Philip ; Masihzadeh, Omid ; Xu, Lina ; Trebino, Rick ; Bartels, Randy A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate a self-referenced method for characterizing of the polarization state of an ultrashort laser pulse field. It can be used with any existing measurement technique that measures intensity and phase of a single polarization.

Keywords

electro-optical effects; high-speed optical techniques; intensity measurement; laser beams; laser variables measurement; light polarisation; phase measurement; pulse measurement; tomography; intensity measurement; measurement technique; phase measurement; polarization state characterization; self-referenced tomographic reconstruction method; transverse linear E-fields retrieval; ultrashort laser pulse field; Delay; Image reconstruction; Optical polarization; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Phase measurement; Pulse measurements; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Tomography; (260.5430) Polarization; (260.7120) Ultrafast phenomena; (320.5540) Ultrafast Pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571710