Complete measurement of 8 fs pulses with wideband SPIRIT

Author

Martinez-León, L. ; Mansuryan, T. ; Kalashyan, M. ; Lhermite, J. ; Louradour, F. ; Hazera, C. ; Petit, S. ; Cormier, E. ; Barthélémy, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Fis., Univ. Jaume I, Castello, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Spectral shearing interferometry provides direct complete real-time information on ultra-short optical signals. Approaches like SPIDER (Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric field Reconstruction) or SPIRIT (SPectral Interferometry Resolved In Time) rely on the interference of two spectrally sheared pulses. SPIRIT is a passive and self-referenced characterization technique that has shown to be suited to a variety of pulse and experimental conditions. Wideband SPIRIT represents its novel configuration aimed at the measurement of few optical cycle pulses. As shown in this communication, ultra-short pulses of 8 fs and with a low energy (i.e. 0.25 nJ) can be characterized by means of this method.

Keywords

electric fields; high-speed optical techniques; light interferometry; SPIDER; complete measurement; direct electric field reconstruction; real-time information; spectral interferometry resolved in time; spectral phase interferometry; spectral shearing interferometry; spectrally sheared pulses; time 8 fs; ultra-short optical signals; wideband SPIRIT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943002

Filename

5943002