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Opt Express. 2015 Dec 14;23(25):32803-8. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.032803.

Single-shot implementation of dispersion-scan for the characterization of ultrashort laser pulses.

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D Fabris, W Holgado, F Silva, T Witting, J W G Tisch, H Crespo

PMID: 26699069 DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.032803

Abstract

We demonstrate a single-shot ultrafast diagnostic, based on the dispersion-scan (d-scan) technique. In this implementation, rather than translating wedges to vary the dispersion as in scanning d-scan, the pulse to be measured experiences a spatially varying amount of dispersion in a prism. The resulting beam is then imaged into a second-harmonic generation crystal and an imaging spectrometer is used to measure the two-dimensional trace, which is analyzed using the d-scan retrieval algorithm. We compare the single-shot implementation with the scanning d-scan for the measurement of sub-3.5-fs pulses from a hollow core fiber pulse compressor. We show that the retrieval algorithm used to extract amplitude and phase of the pulse provides comparable results, proving the validity of the new single-shot implementation in the near single-cycle regime.

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