Measurement of group delay of dispersive mirrors with white-light interferometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 949-956

  Amotchkina, Tatiana V ^a   Tikhonravov, Alexander V ^a   Trubetskov, Michael K ^a   Grupe, Dirk ^b   Apolonski, Alexander ^b,c   Pervak, Vladimir ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS;

BROAD SPECTRAL; INTERFEROMETRIC DATA; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE; WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETER;

GROUP DELAY;

EID: 61449256128     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000949     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. J.-C. Diels and W. Rudolph, Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, 2nd ed. (Academic, 2006).
2. R. Szipöcs, K. Ferencz, C. Spielmann, and F. Krausz, "Chirped multilayer coatings for broadband dispersion control in femtosecond lasers," Opt. Lett. 19, 201-203 (1994).
3. V. Pervak, A. V. Tikhonravov, M. K. Trubetskov, S. Naumov, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, "1.5-octave chirped mirror for pulse compression down to sub-3 fs," Appl. Phys. B 87, 5-12 (2007).
4. A. V. Tikhonravov, M. K. Trubetskov, V. Pervak, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, "Design, fabrication and reverse engineering of broad band chirped mirrors," in Proceedings, Optical Interference Coatings on CD-ROM, Presentation WB4, Tucson, Arizona (OSA, 2007).
5. V. Pervak, C. Tiesset, A. Sugita, S. Naumov, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, "High-dispersive mirrors for femtosecond lasers," Opt. Express 16, 10220-10233 (2008).
6. V. Pervak, S. Naumov, F. Krausz, and A. Apolonski, "Chirped mirrors with low dispersion ripple," Opt. Express 15, 13768-13772 (2007).
7. 2 chirped dielectric multilayers," Opt. Lett. 32, 1183-1185 (2007).
8. A. Ozawa, J. Rauschenberger, C. Gohle, M. Herrmann, D. R. Walker, V. Pervak, A. Fernandez, R. Graf, A. Apolonski, R. Holzwarth, F. Krausz, T. W Haensch, and T. Udem, "High harmonic frequency comb for high resolution spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 253901 (2008).
9. W. H. Knox, N. M. Pearson, K. D. Li, and C. A. Hirlimann, "Interferometric measurements of femtosecond group delay in optical components," Opt. Lett. 13, 574-576 (1988).
10. W. H. Knox, "Dispersion measurements for femtosecond-pulse generation and applications," Appl. Phys. B 58, 225-235 (1994).
11. A. Gosteva, M. Haiml, R. Paschotta, and U. Keller, "Noise-related resolution limit of dispersion measurements with white-light interferometers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22, 1868-1874 (2005).
12. M. Beck and I. A. Walmsley, "Measurement of group delay with high temporal and spectral resolution," Opt. Lett. 15, 492-494 (1990).
13. K. Naganuma, K. Mogi, and H. Yamada, "Group-delay measurement using the Fourier transform of an interferometric cross correlation generated by white light," Opt. Lett. 15, 393-395 (1990).
14. S. Daddams and J.-C. Diels, "Dispersion measurements with white-light interferometry," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 13, 1120-1129 (1996).
15. V. N. Kumar and D. N. Rao, "Using interference in the frequency domain for precise determination of thickness and refractive indices of normal dispersive materials," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 1559-1563 (1995).
16. A. N. Tikhonov and V. Y. Arsenin, Solutions of Ill-Posed Problems (Wiley, 1977).
17. A. P. Kovács, K. Osvay, Z. Bor, and R. Szipöcs, "Group-delay measurement on laser mirrors by spectrally resolved white-light interferometry," Opt. Lett. 20, 788-790 (1995).
18. S. A. Akhomanov and S. Y. Nikitin, Physical Optics (Oxford University, 1997).
19. C. H. Reinsch, "Smoothing by spline function," Numer. Math. 10, 177-183 (1967).