Dispersion control of a pulse stretcher– compressor system with two-dimensional spectral interferometry

Kovács, A. P.; Osvay, K.; Kurdi, G.; Görbe, M.; Klebniczki, J.; Bor, Zsolt

doi:10.1007/s00340-004-1706-0

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“…The extended versions of SSRI using arbitrary broadband light source (e.g., white light or ultrashort laser pulses) quickly became a widespread technique. In addition to further measurements on the phase shift of dispersion-compensating chirped mirrors [45,46], SSRI was used among others for pump-and-probe experiments [47], fine adjustment of the stretcher and compressor units of phase-modulated pulse amplifying systems [48], characterization of laser pulses [49][50][51], as well as the investigation of devices controlling the temporal shape of laser pulses [52,53]. Most recently, a high-power passive optical resonator was studied by this technique [54].…”

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“…SPP method is based on the determination of the spectral position of the stationary phase point as a function of the delay between the sample ad the reference pulse. This technique is particularly useful when one wants to compare stretched pulses of a CPA system with nearly transform-limited seed pulses from the oscillator [48]. It has been also proved to be useful during the measurements of the dispersion of optical fibers [77][78][79].…”

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What We Can Learn about Ultrashort Pulses by Linear Optical Methods

2013

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Spatiotemporal compression of ultrashort pulses is one of the key issues of chirped pulse amplification (CPA), the most common method to achieve high intensity laser beams. Successful shaping of the temporal envelope and recombination of the spectral components of the broadband pulses need careful alignment of the stretcher-compressor stages. Pulse parameters are required to be measured at the target as well. Several diagnostic techniques have been developed so far for the characterization of ultrashort pulses. Some of these methods utilize nonlinear optical processes, while others based on purely linear optics, in most cases, combined with spectrally resolving device. The goal of this work is to provide a review on the capabilities and limitations of the latter category of the ultrafast diagnostical methods. We feel that the importance of these powerful, easy-to-align, high-precision techniques needs to be emphasized, since their use could gradually improve the efficiency of different CPA systems. We give a general description on the background of spectrally resolved linear interferometry and demonstrate various schematic experimental layouts for the detection of material dispersion, angular dispersion and carrier-envelope phase drift. Precision estimations and discussion of potential applications are also provided.

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What We Can Learn about Ultrashort Pulses by Linear Optical Methods

2013

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“…MUD TADPOLE is a simple temporal scanning version of SEA TADPOLE [18][19][20][21][22][23], which is an experimentally simplified variation of SI that involves crossing at an angle the pulse to be measured with the previously measured reference pulse, which greatly simplifies alignment. The crossed beams generate a spatial interferogram [24,25]-unlike standard SI, which generates a spectral interferogram (the cause of the loss of spectral resolution), from which the unknown pulse's intensity and phase can be retrieved by spatially filtering the measured interferogram without loss of spectral resolution.…”

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Single-shot multiple-delay crossed-beam spectral interferometry for measuring extremely complex pulses

Cohen

Bowlan

Chauhan

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Optics Communications

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“…Accordingly, it is worth investigating the possibility of forming more than two SPPs and whether their number suggest which is the highest decisive term in the spectral phase of the optical element or system under study. Moreover, a two-dimensional dispersion monitoring possibility in a pulse stretcher-compressor system has already been proposed employing the SPP method proving its adequacy for such purposes, however, only up to third-order dispersion [33]. It would be beneficial to investigate whether a cheaper implementation relying on a low resolution spectrometer using the SPP method can be used for the same purpose.…”

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Monitoring the dominance of higher-order chromatic dispersion with spectral interferometry using the stationary phase point method

Grósz

Kovács

Mecseki

et al. 2015

Optics Communications

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a b s t r a c tSimulations were performed in order to investigate whether the stationary phase point method can be used to estimate the dominance of higher-order dispersion of the optical element under study. It was shown that different higher-order dispersion terms may result in the appearance of more than one stationary phase point on the interferogram in contrast to common glasses having group-delay dispersion as the highest decisive term in their spectral phase. The results obtained by simulations were demonstrated experimentally with spectral interferometric measurements conducted on a photonic bandgap fiber sample and a prism pair. We concluded that from the shape, movement and number of the stationary phase points it is generally possible to predict which dispersion terms are the most significant, however, in some cases the retrieval of the coefficients is also necessary in order to rule out any ambiguity. The method can offer a dispersion monitoring possibility which is useful in quality testing of specialty fibers and when adjusting stretcher-compressor systems, for example.

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Dispersion control of a pulse stretcher– compressor system with two-dimensional spectral interferometry

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

What We Can Learn about Ultrashort Pulses by Linear Optical Methods

What We Can Learn about Ultrashort Pulses by Linear Optical Methods

Single-shot multiple-delay crossed-beam spectral interferometry for measuring extremely complex pulses

Monitoring the dominance of higher-order chromatic dispersion with spectral interferometry using the stationary phase point method

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