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Investigation of Early Plasma Evolution Induced by Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Published on: July 2, 2012
Plasma-blueshift spectral shear interferometry for characterization of ultimately short optical pulses
Aart J Verhoef1, Alexander Mitrofanov, Aleksei Zheltikov
1Institut für Photonik, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. averhoef@mail.tuwien.ac.at
Optics Letters
|December 26, 2008
Abstract:
We introduce a bandwidth-unlimited, dispersion- and shear-self-calibrated, timing-jitter-free pulse measurement technique based on a quasi-linear temporal phase modulation in a gas weakly ionized by a long pump pulse. Results of a 5 fs pulse characterization are reported.

