X-SEA-F-SPIDER characterization of over octave spanning pulses in the infrared range

G. Fan (1) , T. Balčiūnas (1) , C. Fourcade-Dutin (2) , Stefan Haessler (3) , A. Voronin (4) , A. Zheltikov (4) , Frédéric Gérôme (2) , F. Benabid (2) , A. Baltuška (1) , T. Witting (5)

1 TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology
2 XLIM - XLIM
3 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
4 MSU - Lomonosov Moscow State University
5 Blackett Laboratory

We show a practical implementation of a pulse characterization method for sub-cycle pulse measurements in the infrared spectral range based on spectral shearing interferometry. We employ spatially-encoded arrangement filter-based spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction with external ancila pulses (X-SEA-F-SPIDER). We show merits and limitations of the setup and an in-depth comparison to another widely used temporal characterization technique-Second-Harmonic Generation Frequency Resolved Optical Gating (SHG-FROG). The X-SEA-F-SPIDER implementation presented in this paper allows measurement of sub-cycle pulses with over one octave wide spectrum spanning the 900-2400 nm range without adding any extra dispersion due to the pulse characterization apparatus.

Keywords: Ultrafast optics; Ultrafast measurements; Ultrafast technology

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

G. Fan, T. Balčiūnas, C. Fourcade-Dutin, Stefan Haessler, A. Voronin, et al.. X-SEA-F-SPIDER characterization of over octave spanning pulses in the infrared range. Optics Express, 2016, 24 (12), pp.1614-1617. ⟨10.1364/OE.24.012713⟩. ⟨hal-01634502⟩