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Sci Rep. 2016 Sep 20;6:33749. doi: 10.1038/srep33749.

Single-shot laser pulse reconstruction based on self-phase modulated spectra measurements.

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Elena A Anashkina, Vladislav N Ginzburg, Anton A Kochetkov, Ivan V Yakovlev, Arkady V Kim, Efim A Khazanov

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

PMID: 27646027 PMCID: PMC5028758 DOI: 10.1038/srep33749

Abstract

We report a method for ultrashort pulse reconstruction based only on the pulse spectrum and two self-phase modulated (SPM) spectra measured after pulse propagation through thin media with a Kerr nonlinearity. The advantage of this method is that it is a simple and very effective tool for characterization of complex signals. We have developed a new retrieval algorithm that was verified by reconstructing numerically generated fields, such as a complex electric field of double pulses and few-cycle pulses with noises, pedestals and dips down to zero spectral intensity, which is challenging for commonly used techniques. We have also demonstrated a single-shot implementation of the technique for the reconstruction of experimentally obtained pulses. This method can be used for high power laser systems operating in a single-shot mode in the optical, near- and mid-IR spectral ranges. The method is robust, low cost, stable to noise, does not require a priori information, and has no ambiguity related to time direction.

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