An achromatic lens for focusing femtosecond pulses: direct measurement of femtosecond pulse front distortion using a second-order autocorrelation technique

Optics Communications

Volumn 122, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 99-104

  Ameer Beg, S ^b   Langley, A J ^a   Ross, I N ^a   Shaikh, W ^a   Taday, P F ^a  

^a Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ACHROMATIC LENS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE FRONT DISTORTION; FEMTOSECOND PULSES; GROUP VELOCITY DISTORTION; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; SECOND ORDER AUTOCORRELATION TECHNIQUE; ULTRAHIGH INTENSITY FOCUSING;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 0029735090     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00483-1     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Compression of optical pulses to six femtoseconds by using cubic phase compensation
2. Pulse front and pulse duration distortion in refractive optics, and its compensation
3. Behaviour of femtosecond pulses on the optical axis of a lens. Analytical description
4. Femtosecond-resolution pulse-front distortion measurement by time-of-flight interferometry