Inline self-diffraction dispersion-scan of over octave-spanning pulses in the single-cycle regime
Optics
2017-10-11 v3 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
We present an implementation of dispersion-scan based on self-diffraction (SD d-scan) and apply it to the measurement of over octave-spanning sub-4-fs pulses. The results are compared with second-harmonic generation (SHG) d-scan. The efficiency of the SD process is derived theoretically and compared with the spectral response retrieved by the d-scan algorithm. The new SD d-scan has a robust inline setup and enables measuring pulses with over-octave spectra, single-cycle durations and wavelength ranges beyond those of SHG crystals, such as the ultraviolet and the deep-ultraviolet.
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@article{arxiv.1703.01139,
title = {Inline self-diffraction dispersion-scan of over octave-spanning pulses in the single-cycle regime},
author = {M. Canhota and F. Silva and R. Weigand and H. M. Crespo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01139},
year = {2017}
}
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8 pages, 5 figures