Mid-infrared electric field characterization using a visible charge-coupled-device-based spectrometer

Kevin J. Kubarych (1) , Manuel Joffre (1) , Amy Moore (2) , Nadia Belabas (2) , David Jonas (2)

1 LOB - Laboratoire d'optique et biosciences
2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry [Boulder]

We characterize ultrashort mid-infrared pulses through upconversion by using the stretched pulses obtained from the uncompressed output of a chirped-pulse amplifier. The power spectrum thus translated into the visible region can be readily measured with a standard silicon CCD camera-based spectrometer. The spectral phase is also characterized by a variant of zero-added-phase spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction. This is a general method that provides a multiplex advantage over conventional infrared detector array-based methods. © 2005 Optical Society of America

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Kevin J. Kubarych, Manuel Joffre, Amy Moore, Nadia Belabas, David Jonas. Mid-infrared electric field characterization using a visible charge-coupled-device-based spectrometer. Optics Letters, 2005, 30 (10), pp.1228-1230. ⟨10.1364/OL.30.001228⟩. ⟨hal-00829235⟩