Solid-state light phase detector

Author

Apolonski, A. ; Dombi, P. ; Paulus, G.G. ; Kakehata, M. ; Holzwarth, R. ; Udem, Th ; Lemell, Ch ; Burgdorfei, J. ; Hansch, T.M. ; Krausz, F.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Photonik, Wien Univ., Austria

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

182

Abstract

Different approaches have been proposed and recently carried out experimentally to measure the value of the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of a powerful (> 1 μJ) few-cycle pulse: generation of high harmonics and above-threshold ionization in gases. We demonstrate for the first time that electron emission from a gold surface induced by 4-fs 3 nJ pulse is sensitive to the timing of electric field oscillations with respect to the pulse peak and use this sensitivity for measuring the light field´s oscillation phase at the pulse peak in low-energy laser pulses.

Keywords

gold; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; optical variables measurement; photoemission; 3 nJ; 4 fs; Au; above-threshold ionization; carrier-envelope phase; electric field oscillations; electron emission; gold surface; high harmonics generation; light phase detector; low-energy laser pulses; solid-state detector; Gases; Ionization; Optical pulses; Phase detection; Phase measurement; Power generation; Power system harmonics; Pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Solid state circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7733-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314039

Filename

1314039