Measurement of the ultrashort pulse spectral phase based on dispersive Fourier transformation.

A technique for measuring the spectral phase of an ultrashort pulse is developed based on the dispersive Fourier transformation method, as an alternative to spectral interferometric methods. The pulse spectral phase is measured by transferring the information from the spectral to the temporal domain by stretching the pulse to reach the far field of dispersion. We have implemented the technique through sum-frequency generation by using the laser pulse as a reference and have experimentally demonstrated the direct spectral phase measurement of various amplitude-modulated pulses.

Pulse compression to 14 fs by third-order dispersion control in a hybrid grating-prism compressor.

A pulse compressor consisting of a fiber and a compact hybrid grating-prism dispersive delay line (DDL) is used to compress readily-available 140-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser. We generate broadband pulses of up to 75 THz FWHM bandwidth in normally-dispersive single-mode conventional and photonic crystal fibers, with a potential of compression to 6 fs. Pulse dechirping in our hybrid DDL through second- and third-order dispersion (TOD) compensation results in 10× compression to 14 fs, limited by the bandwidth of the DDL transfer function and higher-order dispersion.

Ultrashort pulse fiber delivery with optimized dispersion control by reflection grisms at 800 nm.

We experimentally demonstrate a compact and efficient arrangement for fiber delivery of sub-30 fs energetic light pulses at 800 nm. Pulses coming from a broadband Ti:Sapphire oscillator are negatively pre-chirped by a grism-pair stretcher that allows for the control of second and third orders of dispersion. At the direct exit of a 2.