Real-time pulse length measurement of few-cycle laser pulses using above-threshold ionization

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4464-4471

  Sayler, A M ^a,b   Rathje, Tim ^a,b   Muller W ^a   Kurbis Ch ^a   Rühle, Klaus ^a   Stibenz, Gero ^c   Paulus, G G ^a,b,d  

^a Institut fur Optik und Quantenelektronik   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c APE GmbH   (Germany)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; IONIZATION; PULSE GENERATORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABOVE-THRESHOLD IONIZATION; CARRIER-ENVELOPE PHASE MEASUREMENT; EFFECTIVE TOOL; FEW-CYCLE; FEW-CYCLE LASER PULSE; FIELD RECONSTRUCTION; GAUSSIAN PULSE; PULSE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE LENGTH; PULSE TRAIN; REAL TIME DISPLAY; RESCATTERING; SINGLE-SHOT; ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE; WAVE FORMS;

PHASE MEASUREMENT;

ION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IONS; LASERS; PHOTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79952150259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004464     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. A. Baltuška, T. Udem, M. Uiberacker, M. Hentschel, E. Goulielmakis, C. Gohle, R. Holzwarth, V. Yakoviev, A. Scrinzi, T. Hänsch, and F. Krausz, "Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields," Nature 421, 611-615 (2003). (Pubitemid 36227664)
2. I. P. Christov, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, "High-harmonic generation of attosecond pulses in the 'singlecycle' regime," Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1251-1254 (1997). (Pubitemid 127648144)
3. P. B. Corkum and F. Krausz, "Attosecond science," Nat. Phys. 3, 381-387 (2007).
4. R. Holzwarth, T. Udem, T. W. Hänsch, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. S. J. Russell, "Optical frequency synthesizer for precision spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2264-2267 (2000).
5. M. Kakehata, H. Takada, Y. Kobayashi, K. Torizuka, Y. Fujihira, T. Homma, and H. Takahashi, "Single-shot measurement of carrier-envelope phase changes by spectral interferometry," Opt. Lett. 26, 1436-1438 (2001). (Pubitemid 33693755)
6. A. Baltuška, M. Uiberacker, E. Goulielmakis, R. Kienberger, V. S. Yakovlev, T. Udem, T. W. Hänsch, and F. Krausz, "Phase-controlled amplification of few-cycle laser pulses," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 972-989 (2003)
7. C. A. Haworth, L. E. Chipperfield, J. S. Robinson, P. L. Knight, J. P. Marangos, and J. W. G. Tisch, "Half-cycle cutoffs in harmonic spectra and robust carrier-envelope phase retrieval," Nat. Phys. 3, 52-57 (2007).
8. T. M. Fortier, P. A. Roos, D. J. Jones, S. T. Cundiff, R. D. R. Bhat, and J. E. Sipe, "Carrier-envelope phasecontrolled quantum interference of injected photocurrents in semiconductors," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 147403 (2004).
9. R. Trebino, K.W. Delong, D. N. Fittinghoff, J. N. Sweetster, M. A. Krumbugel, and B. A. Richman, "Measuring ultrashort laser pulses in the time-frequency domain using frequency-resolved optical gating" Rev. Sci. Instrum. 68, 3277-3295 (1997). (Pubitemid 127665658)
10. D. J. Kane, "Recent progress toward real-time measurement of ultrashort laser pulses," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 35, 421-431 (1999).
11. C. Iaconis and I. A.Walmsley, "Self-referencing spectral interferometry for measuring ultrashort optical pulses," IEEE J. Quantum Electron 35, 501-509 (1999).
12. G. Stibenz and G. Steinmeyer, "Optimizing spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction," Rev. Sci. Instr. 77, 073105 (2006).
13. R. Kienberger, E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, A. Baltuška, V. Yakovlev, F. Bammer, A. Scrinzi, T. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz, "Atomic transient recorder," Nature 427, 817-821 (2004). (Pubitemid 38297738)
14. J. Itatani, F. Quéré, G. L. Yudin, M. Y. Ivanov, F. Krausz, and P. B. Corkum, "Attosecond streak camera," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 173903 (2002).
15. M. Drescher, M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, M. Uiberacker, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinizi, T. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, and F. Krausz, "Time-resolved atomic inner-shell spectroscopy," Nature 419, 803-807 (2002). (Pubitemid 35238560)
16. E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, R. Kienberger, A. Baltuška, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, T. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz, "Direct measurement of light waves," Science 305, 1267-1269 (2004). (Pubitemid 39129226)
17. E. Goulielmakis, M. Schultze, M. Hofstetter, V. S. Yakovlev, J. Gagnon, M. Uiberacker, L. A. Aquila, E. M. Gullikson, D. T. Attwood, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, and U. Kleineberg, "Single-cycle nonlinear optics," Science 320, 1614-1617 (2008). (Pubitemid 351934252)
18. V. S. Yakovlev, F. Bammer, and A. Scrinzi, "Attosecond streaking measurements," J. Mod. Opt. 52, 395-410 (2005). (Pubitemid 43203619)
19. M. F. Kling, J. Rauschenberger, A. J. Verhoef, E. Hasović, T. Uphues, D. B. Milošević, H. G. Muller, and M. J. J. Vrakking, "Imaging of carrier-envelope phase effects in bovethreshold ionization with intense few-cycle laser fields," New J. Phys. 10, 025024 (2008).
20. S. Micheau, Zhangjin Chen, A. T. Le, J. Rauschenberger, M. F. Kling, C. D. Lin, "Accurate retrieval of target structures and laser parameters of few-cycle pulses from photoelectron momentum spectra," Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073001 (2009).
21. A. M. Sayler, T. Rathje, W. Müller, Klaus Rühle, R. Kienberger, and G. G. Paulus, "Precise, real-time, everysingle-shot, carrier-envelope phase measurement of ultrashort laser pulses," Opt. Lett. 36, 1-3 (2011).
22. N. G. Johnson, O. Herrwerth, A. Wirth, S. De, I. Ben-Itzhak, M. Lezius, F. Krausz, B. Bergues, M. F. Kling, A. Senftleben, C. D. Schröter, R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, K. J. Betsch, R. R. Jones, A. M. Sayler, T. Rathje, K. Rühle, W. Müller, and G. G. Paulus, "Single-shot carrier-envelope-phase tagged ion momentum imaging of non-sequential double ionization of argon in intense 4-fs laser fields," Phys. Rev. A 83, 013412 (2011).
23. G. G. Paulus, A. M. Sayler, T. Rathje, and W. Müller, "Apparatus for a fast phase measurement of few-cycle pulses," German Patent Pending, 10-2010-019-814.5 (May 5, 2010).
24. T. Wittmann, B. Horvath, W. Helml, M. G. Schatzel, X. Gu, A. L. Cavalieri, G. G. Paulus, and R. Kienberger, "Single-shot carrier-envelope phase measurement of fewcycle laser pulses," Nat. Phys. 5, 357-362 (2009).
25. Z. Chen, T. Wittmann, B. Horvath, and C. D. Lin, "Complete real-time temporal waveform characterization of single-shot few-cycle laser pulses," Phys. Rev. A 80, 061402 (2009).
26. Z. Chen, A. T. Le, T. Morishita, and C. D. Lin, "Quantitative rescattering theory for laser-induced high-energy plateau photoelectron spectra, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033409 (2009).
27. G. G. Paulus, F. Lindner, H. Walther, A. Baltuška, E. Goulielmakis, M. Lezius, and F. Krausz, "Measurement of the phase of few-cycle laser pulses," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 253004 (2003).
28. G. G. Paulus, F. Grasbon, H. Walther, P. Villoresi, M. Nisoli, S. Stagira, E. Priori, and S. De Silvestri, "Absolutephase phenomena in photoionization with few-cycle laser pulses," Nature 414, 182-184 (2001). (Pubitemid 33051227)
29. D. J. Jones, S. A. Diddams, J. K. Ranka, A. Stentz, R. S.Windeler, J. L. Hall, and S. T. Cundiff, "Carrier-envelope phase control of femtosecond mode-locked lasers and direct optical frequency synthesis," Science 288, 635-639 (2000). (Pubitemid 30241561)