Spectral phase characterization of ultrashort pulse using fringe free interferometry

Lei, Liang, Sun, Anquan, Yuan, Wei, Zhou, Jinyun, Wang, Bo, Xing, Xiaobo

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Liang Lei, Anquan Sun, Wei Yuan, Jinyun Zhou, Bo Wang, Xiaobo Xing Spectral phase characterization of ultrashort pulse using fringe free interferometry [на англ. яз.] // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 6. С. 9–14.

Liang Lei, Anquan Sun, Wei Yuan, Jinyun Zhou, Bo Wang, Xiaobo Xing Spectral phase characterization of ultrashort pulse using fringe free interferometry [in English] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 6. P. 9–14.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

Liang Lei, Anquan Sun, Wei Yuan, Jinyun Zhou, Bo Wang, and Xiaobo Xing, "Spectral phase characterization of ultrashort pulse using fringe free interferometry," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(6), 308-311 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000308

Abstract:

There are presented analytical and experimental results of a novel method which enables significant simplifications in spectral shearing interferometry as applied for ultrashort optical pulse measurements. The method attempts to improve the superiority in conventional Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-field Reconstruction (SPIDER). It doesn’t split a test pulse into two parts, but compensates for the delay time between two quasi-monochromatic frequency components in a chirped pulse with spectral and temporal shear to produce an interferogram without fringe. Fringe free interferograms could simplify data processing procedures and reduce the restriction on resolution of spectrometers. The experimental setup avoids the influence of material dispersion with real-time and single-shot nature, and could be made up as a miniaturization measurement device. Although being short of the beauties in SPIDER, it still could be an optional femtosecond pulse measurement method in certain conditions.

Keywords:

femtosecond pulsе, ultrafast measurements, spectral phase interferometer

Acknowledgements:

The authors acknowledge the financial support from National Natural Science Foundations of China Grant Nos. 61107029, 11304044 and 61177077.

OCIS codes: 120.3180, 120.5050, 320.7100

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