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Femtosecond time-resolved optical polarigraphy: imaging of the propagation dynamics of intense light in a medium
M Fujimoto1, S Aoshima, M Hosoda
1Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., 5000 Hirakuchi, Hamakita-City 434-8601, Japan.
Optics Letters
|December 13, 2007
Abstract:
A time-resolved imaging technique for visualizing ultrafast propagation dynamics of intense light pulses in a medium has been demonstrated. The method probes the instantaneous birefringence induced by a pulse in the medium. Through consecutive femtosecond snapshot images of intense femtosecond laser pulses propagating in air, ultrafast temporal changes in the two-dimensional spatial distribution of the optical pulse intensity were clearly seen.
