Characterization of sub-6-fs optical pulses with spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction

L. Gallmann, D. H. Sutter, N. Matuschek, G. Steinmeyer, U. Keller, C. Iaconis, I. A. Walmsley
1999 Optics Letters  
We demonstrate spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-f ield reconstruction (SPIDER) as a novel method to characterize sub-6-fs pulses with nanojoule pulse energy. SPIDER reconstructs pulse phase and amplitude from a measurement of only two optical spectra by use of a fast noniterative algorithm. SPIDER is well suited to the measurement of ultrabroadband pulses because it is quite insensitive to crystal phasematching bandwidth and to unknown detector spectral responsivity. Moreover,
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doi:10.1364/ol.24.001314 pmid:18079791 fatcat:h67bpnlbnrhhnmsmozd7nzgbui