Nanoprobe-based characterization of femtosecond laser pulses

Author

Haifeng Li ; Jia, Yaoshun ; Xu, Qian ; Xu, Yong ; Wu, Jian ; Eklund, Peter C. ; Liu, Zhiwen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We propose and develop a nanoprobe-based technique for characterizing femtosecond laser pulses. A preliminary demonstration based on the measurement of the interferometric autocorrelation trace through two-photon fluorescence from a nonlinear nanoprobe is reported.

Keywords

fluorescence; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser variables measurement; light interferometry; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical correlation; probes; two-photon processes; femtosecond laser pulses; interferometric autocorrelation trace measurement; nanoprobe-based characterization; nonlinear nanoprobe; two-photon fluorescence; Autocorrelation; Fluorescence; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical microscopy; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Scanning electron microscopy; Ultrafast optics; Zinc compounds; 310.6628 Subwavelength structures, nanostructures; 320.7100 Ultrafast measurements; 320.7110 Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225046