Open AccessGenerating bursts of femtosecond laser pulses with a tunable delay and envelope in a folded Michelson interferometer
Author(s) -
Boyang Zhou,
He Cheng,
M. J. Soileau,
Xiaoming Yu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
applied optics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.668
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 2155-3165
pISSN - 1559-128X
DOI - 10.1364/ao.425628
Subject(s) - optics , michelson interferometer , femtosecond , laser , interferometry , physics , envelope (radar) , astronomical interferometer , computer science , telecommunications , radar
Bursts of 16 femtosecond laser pulses are generated in a fourfold Michelson interferometer with a tunable delay and envelope. Solutions are given to solve the "forward problem" (bursts from a given parameter set) and "inverse problem" (obtain parameter set from a given burst). Three types of bursts are generated experimentally with envelopes suitable for applications in laser materials processing and the generation of terahertz radiation.