Complete characterization of ultrashort optical pulses with a phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer

Billy Lam; Chunlei Guo

doi:10.1038/s41377-018-0022-0

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Complete characterization of ultrashort optical pulses with a phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer

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- Complete characterization of ultrashort optical pulses with a phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 4, Pages: 270-280(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
  2.Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 130033 Changchun, China
- Author bio：
  
  Chunlei Guo (guo@optics.rochester.edu)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-018-0022-0
  CLC：
- Published：2018，
  
  Published Online：11 July 2018，
  
  Received：14 November 2017，
  
  Revised：17 April 2018，
  
  Accepted：22 April 2018
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Lam, B. & Guo, C. L. Complete characterization of ultrashort optical pulses with a phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 270-280 (2018).
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Lam, B. & Guo, C. L. Complete characterization of ultrashort optical pulses with a phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 270-280 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-018-0022-0.

摘要

Abstract

The ability of an interferometer to characterize the spatial information of a light beam is often limited by the temporal profile of the beam

with femtosecond pulse characterization being particularly challenging. In this study

we developed a simple

stable

controllable shearing and vectorial phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer that is able to characterize all types of coherent and partially coherent light beams. The proposed interferometer consists of only a single beam splitter cube with one wedged entrance face and is insensitive to environmental vibration due to its common path configuration. A near zero-path length difference of the proposed interferometer ensures its operation for ultrashort pulses

providing

for the first time

a simple and stable interferometric tool to fully characterize sub-100 fs laser pulses. All common beam characterization can be carried out with the interferometer

such as the amplitude

phase

polarization

wavelength

and pulse duration. Furthermore

this technique is sensitive to the wavefront tilt and can be used for precise beam alignment. Therefore

this interferometer can be an essential tool for beam characterization

optical imaging

and the testing required for a wide range of applications

including astronomy

biomedicine

ophthalmology

optical testing and imaging systems

and adaptive optics.

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