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Two-photon absorption in diamond and its application to ultraviolet femtosecond pulse-width measurement
Abstract:
Intensity-dependent transmission measurements of 310-nm femtosecond pulses show that diamond has a twophoton absorption coefficient of 0.75 +/- 0.15 cm/GW, in approximate agreement with universal scaling formulas for two-photon absorption in diamond-structure materials. We then demonstrate that two-photon absorption is strong enough to permit simple measurements of ultraviolet femtosecond pulse widths in single-crystal diamond plates that are thin enough (250 microm) to be both inexpensive and dispersion free. Autocorrelation measurements of 10-50-nJ, 0.18-1.4-ps pulses are presented. The method requires no phase matching and can be applied to pulses in the wavelength range of 220-550 nm.
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