Arbitrary-detuning asynchronous optical sampling with amplified laser systems

Laura Antonucci (1) , Adeline Bonvalet (1) , Xavier Solinas (1) , Louis Daniault (1) , Manuel Joffre (1)

1 LOB - Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences

We demonstrate that Arbitrary-Detuning ASynchronous OPtical Sampling (AD-ASOPS) makes possible multiscale pump-probe spectroscopy with time delays spanning from picosecond to millisecond. The implementation on pre-existing femtosecond amplifiers seeded by independent free-running oscillators is shown to be straightforward. The accuracy of the method is determined by comparison with spectral interferometry, providing a distribution with a standard deviation ranging from 0.31 to 1.7 ps depending on experimental conditions and on the method used to compute the AD-ASOPS delays. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Laura Antonucci, Adeline Bonvalet, Xavier Solinas, Louis Daniault, Manuel Joffre. Arbitrary-detuning asynchronous optical sampling with amplified laser systems. Optics Express, 2015, 23 (21), pp.27931-27940. ⟨10.1364/OE.23.027931⟩. ⟨hal-01255014⟩