Temporal control of amplified femtosecond pulses with a deformable mirror in a stretcher

Gilles Chériaux (1) , Olivier Albert (1) , V. Wänman (1) , Jean-Paul Chambaret (1) , C. Felix (2) , G. Mourou (2)

1 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
2 Center for Ultrafast Optical Science

We correct the spectral phases of amplified femtosecond pulses by using a deformable mirror in the stretcher. After the correction the peak intensity is multiplied by 1.5 as a consequence of increasing the contrast by 100× . The spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction is used to characterize the pulse temporally.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Gilles Chériaux, Olivier Albert, V. Wänman, Jean-Paul Chambaret, C. Felix, et al.. Temporal control of amplified femtosecond pulses with a deformable mirror in a stretcher. Optics Letters, 2001, 26 (3), pp.169-171. ⟨10.1364/OL.26.000169⟩. ⟨hal-00526597⟩