Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Parabolic temporal lensing and spectrotemporal imaging: a femtosecond optical oscilloscope

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

We introduce a self-reference method of parabolic temporal lensing and aberration-free spectrotemporal imaging for the direct measurements of femtosecond waveforms, with the goal of designing an ultrafast optical oscilloscope. Our method is based on dispersive stretching of the signal pulse and afterwards cancellation of the dispersion-induced phase in a quadratic nonlinear process by adding a reference parabolic phase (instead of Kerr lensing of traditional spectral compression). We have implemented the method through sum-frequency generation using the self-shaped nonlinear-dispersive similariton as a reference pulse and have demonstrated it experimentally for the direct measurements of amplitude- and phase-modulated pulses on a femtosecond time scale.

© 2008 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Two-dimensional spectral shearing interferometry resolved in time for ultrashort optical pulse characterization

Mickaël Lelek, Frédéric Louradour, Alain Barthélémy, Claude Froehly, Tigran Mansourian, Levon Mouradian, Jean-Paul Chambaret, Gilles Chériaux, and Brigitte Mercier
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(6) A17-A24 (2008)

Interference without an interferometer: a different approach to measuring, compressing, and shaping ultrashort laser pulses

Yves Coello, Vadim V. Lozovoy, Tissa C. Gunaratne, Bingwei Xu, Ian Borukhovich, Chien-hung Tseng, Thomas Weinacht, and Marcos Dantus
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(6) A140-A150 (2008)

Ultralow-power second-harmonic generation frequency-resolved optical gating using aperiodically poled lithium niobate waveguides [Invited]

Houxun Miao, Shang-Da Yang, Carsten Langrock, Rostislav V. Roussev, M. M. Fejer, and Andrew M. Weiner
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(6) A41-A53 (2008)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (8)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (17)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved