Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric Field Reconstruction of Ultrashort Optical Pulses

Iaconis, C.

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“…4(c)-4(f)) are now round and show the modulated super-gaussian shape typical of such lasers in the near-field, with the expected diameter. But much finer features are also recovered: for ω 3 and ω 4 , the intensity profiles suffer from a vertical clip on the right edge of the beam, which drifts towards the center of the beam when frequency increases (see white dashed lines in Fig. 4(e) and 4(f)).…”

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“…However, since INSIGHT is totally insensitive to the relative phase between different frequencies, φ(x, y, ω) is only retrieved up to a spatially-uniform spectral phase, which in particular prevents reconstructing the E-field in space-time. This missing information can be obtained through a single additional measurement, using a temporal measurement technique such as FROG [4] or SPIDER [3]. Such measurement is only required at one spatial position (x 0 , y 0 ) in the beam (provided all frequencies are present at this position [21]): once the local spectral phase φ(x 0 , y 0 , ω) is known, the complete spatio-spectral phase φ(x, y, ω) is obtained by imposing its spectral variation at (x 0 , y 0 ) -a process called frequency stitching.…”

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“…In particular, the ability, since the late 90's, to accurately measure the temporal evolution of the local electric field E(t) of ultrashort pulses [2] has played a crucial role in the optimization and applications of these lasers. Such measurements, once at the forefront of optical metrology, can be now routinely achieved thanks to a variety of elegant techniques [3][4][5][6].…”

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Spatio-spectral metrology at focus of ultrashort lasers: a phase-retrieval approach

Borot¹,

Quéré²

2018

Opt. Express

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The complete characterization of an ultrashort laser beam ultimately requires the determination of its spatio-temporal electric field E(x, y, t), or its spatio-spectral counterpart E(x, y, ω). We describe a new measurement technique called INSIGHT, which determines E(x, y, ω), up to an unknown spatially-homogeneous spectral phase. Combining this information with a temporal measurement at a single point of the beam then enables the determination of the spatio-temporal field E(x, y, t). This technique is based on the combination of spatially-resolved Fourier-transform spectroscopy with an alternate-projection phase-retrieval algorithm. It can be applied to any reproducible laser source with a repetition rate higher than about 0.1 Hz, relies on a very simple device, does not require any reference beam, and circumvents the difficulty associated with the manipulation of large beam diameters by working in the vicinity of the beam focus. We demonstrate INSIGHT on a 100 TW-25 fs laser, and use the measurement results to introduce new representations for the analysis of spatio-temporal/spectral couplings of ultrashort lasers.

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Section: Analysis Of the Beam Properties In The Near-fieldmentioning

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Section: Principlementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Spatio-spectral metrology at focus of ultrashort lasers: a phase-retrieval approach

Borot¹,

Quéré²

2018

Opt. Express

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“…This requires phase retrieval methods, such as FROG-CRAB (frequency-resolved optical gating for complete reconstruction of attosecond bursts) [91]. The SPIDER method (spectral phase interferometry for direct electricfield reconstruction) can be used as well [92,93]. Further details can be found, for instance, in Ref.…”

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Attosecond single-cycle undulator light: a review

Mak¹,

Shamuilov²,

Salén³

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Rep. Prog. Phys.

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Research at modern light sources continues to improve our knowledge of the natural world, from the subtle workings of life to matter under extreme conditions. Free-electron lasers, for instance, have enabled the characterization of biomolecular structures with sub-ångström spatial resolution, and paved the way to controlling the molecular functions. On the other hand, attosecond temporal resolution is necessary to broaden our scope of the ultrafast world. Here we discuss attosecond pulse generation beyond present capabilities. Furthermore, we review three recently proposed methods of generating attosecond x-ray pulses. These novel methods exploit the coherent radiation of microbunched electrons in undulators and the tailoring of the emitted wavefronts. The computed pulse energy outperforms pre-existing technologies by three orders of magnitude. Specifically, our simulations of the proposed Soft X-Ray Laser (SXL) at MAX IV (Lund, Sweden) show that a pulse duration of 50-100 attoseconds and a pulse energy up to 5 microjoules is feasible with the novel methods. In addition, the methods feature pulse shape control, enable the incorporation of orbital angular momentum, and can be used in combination with modern compact free-electron laser setups.

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“…Ultrashort light pulse characterization, which in general includes determination of the temporal dependence of the instantaneous frequency (chirp) or, equivalently, spectral phase, is a difficult and complicated task [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Our previous theoretical analysis has shown that the well-known nonlinear autocorrelator based on noncolinear second-harmonic generation (SHG) [13], in addition to pulse duration measurements, can provide measurements of the chirp of a fs pulse [2,4,13].…”

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Simple ultrashort light pulse chirp measurement device

Kabelka¹

2005

Lith. J. Phys.

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A simple device, Frequency Tracer (FT), for simultaneous measurement of ultrashort light pulse duration and chirp is presented. FT operation is based on the two-dimensional image analysis (time versus frequency) of the non-colinear secondharmonic autocorrelator beam, and FT enables one to evaluate the temporal phase variation over the femtosecond pulse duration. The spectral information of a fs pulse in FT originates from the angular divergence of a second-harmonic signal beam, and there is no need to use the spectral apparatus. Femtosecond pulses duration and chirp measurements of the Ti:sapphire laser system multi-pass amplifier (MPA) during adjustment of the compressor pair of gratings were made.

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Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric Field Reconstruction of Ultrashort Optical Pulses

Cited by 142 publications

References 6 publications

Spatio-spectral metrology at focus of ultrashort lasers: a phase-retrieval approach

Spatio-spectral metrology at focus of ultrashort lasers: a phase-retrieval approach

Attosecond single-cycle undulator light: a review

Simple ultrashort light pulse chirp measurement device

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