Practical measurement of femtosecond optical pulses using time-resolved optical gating

I. G. Cormack, W. Sibbett, D. T. Reid

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Abstract

We report a practical experimental implementation of time-resolved optical gating (TROG) using a dispersive pulse (DP) propagation geometry and a two-photon absorption nonlinear detector. A measurement of 50 fs pulses from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser is demonstrated and a general procedure for calibrating the dispersion axis of the TROG trace is presented. A complete iterative pulse retrieval algorithm is described and the limitations of the DP-TROG technique are discussed. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)415-424
Number of pages10
JournalOptics Communications
Volume194
Issue number4-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2001

Keywords

  • Femtosecond
  • Optical pulse measurements
  • Pulse characterization
  • Time-resolved optical gating
  • Ultrafast optics

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