Open AccessSelf-referenced measurement of the complete electric field of ultrashort pulses
Author(s) -
Pablo Gabolde,
Rick Trebino
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/opex.12.004423
Subject(s) - frequency resolved optical gating , optics , chirp , physics , ultrashort pulse , electric field , tilt (camera) , wavefront , laser , holography , pulse (music) , femtosecond pulse shaping , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , engineering , detector
A self-referenced technique based on digital holography and frequency-resolved optical gating is proposed in order to characterize the complete complex electric field E (x, y, z, t) of a train of ultrashort laser pulses. We apply this technique to pulses generated by a mode-locked Ti:Sapphire oscillator and demonstrate that our device reveals and measures common linear spatio-temporal couplings such as spatial chirp and pulse-front tilt.