Picosecond Laser Pulse Measurement
Edinburgh instruments epl series of diode lasers have pulse widths down to 55 ps and are ideal for most scenarios.
Picosecond laser pulse measurement. Fwhm laser is the pulse width of the laser excitation source. And huang chunning and takeda yasuhiro and liu yun abstractnote a compact optical correlator system that measures both the autocorrelation between two infrared ir lights and the cross. The microwave reflectivity of the ge is measured as a. Sapphire regenerative amplifier spectra physics spitfire ace 35f is used to generate the picosecond or femtosecond laser pulses with the central wavelength of 800 nm and repetition rate of 1 khz.
The technique is capable of measuring pulse widths at least as short as 4 10 13 sec. The measurement of time bandwidth product of the generated coherent picosecond pulses at 500 mhz modulation gave the value of 0 38 for lorentzian pulse shape with a full width at half maximum of nearly 34 ps which proved definitely the fourier transform limited character more less. Picosecond microwave pulse measurement. Picosecond pulsed diode lasers are the most common light source for tcspc measurements.
Measure picosecond dura tions accurately in essence. The pulses studied were found to have a full width at half power of between 4 and 6 picoseconds. The nature of the. Tpl when excited by a broad bandwidth laser pulse that is tuned to the aunrs localized surface plasmon resonance.
As the first stage of pulse width measurement however we examined a pulse width measurement technique in the picosecond range by using. Pulse width measurement in the sub picosecond to picosecond range. Article osti 1185500 title multifunctional optical correlator for picosecond ultraviolet laser pulse measurement author rakhman abdurahim and wang yang and garcia frances and long cary d. The temporal evolutions of the picosecond pulse are measured when the picosecond laser pulse propagates in cs 2 nonlinear medium with different lengths which are presented in fig.
Despite the high velocity of light ultrashort pulses can also be very short in the spatial domain. The microwave burst generated by a gaas switch activated by a 30 ps 1 06 lm optical pulse coming from nd y ag mode locked laser is gated by laser induced reflec tivity in a ge wafer. The spatial width of a pulse in the propagation direction is given by the group velocity times the temporal pulse width. The width of the cross correlation curve is about 75 ps when the length of cs 2 medium is 1 cm which is the same as the result of no cs 2 fig.
The schematic diagram of the experimental setup for the spatiotemporal intensity measurement of the picosecond laser pulses by using the cup system is shown in fig.