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Simultaneous recovery of two ultrashort laser pulses from a single spectrogram

Journal Article · · Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics
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  1. Sandia National Laboratories, MS 9057, Livermore, California 94551-0969 (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Livermore, California 94550 (United States)

We introduce a technique for simultaneously measuring the time-dependent intensity and phase of two independent and arbitrary ultrashort laser pulses from a single measured spectrogram. This two-pulse method is mathematically equivalent to the problem of blind deconvolution, and we use an algorithm analogous to those used for deblurring two-dimensional images to recover the two pulses. We demonstrate the method by simultaneously retrieving the intensity and the phase of two different pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser, one of which is chirped by propagation through glass. {copyright} {ital 1995 Optical Society of America.}

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
253461
Journal Information:
Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 12; ISSN JOBPDE; ISSN 0740-3224
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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