All-optical sampling of few-cycle infrared pulses using tunneling in a solid
Abstract
Recent developments in ultrafast laser technology have resulted in novel few-cycle sources in the mid-infrared. Accurately characterizing the time-dependent intensities and electric field waveforms of such laser pulses is essential to their applications in strong-field physics and attosecond pulse generation, but this remains a challenge. Recently, it was shown that tunnel ionization can provide an ultrafast temporal “gate” for characterizing high-energy few-cycle laser waveforms capable of ionizing air. Here, we show that tunneling and multiphoton excitation in a dielectric solid can provide a means to measure lower-energy and longer-wavelength pulses, and we apply the technique to characterize microjoule-level near- and mid-infrared pulses. The method lends itself to both all-optical and on-chip detection of laser waveforms, as well as single-shot detection geometries.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1782386
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1773766
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019291; FA9550-20-1-0284; FA9550-16-1-0149; 1809181
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Photonics Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Photonics Research Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2327-9125
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Liu, Yangyang, Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima, Beetar, John E., Nesper, Jonathan, Yousif, Ahmed, Nrisimhamurty, M., and Chini, Michael. All-optical sampling of few-cycle infrared pulses using tunneling in a solid. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1364/PRJ.420916.
Liu, Yangyang, Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima, Beetar, John E., Nesper, Jonathan, Yousif, Ahmed, Nrisimhamurty, M., & Chini, Michael. All-optical sampling of few-cycle infrared pulses using tunneling in a solid. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.420916
Liu, Yangyang, Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima, Beetar, John E., Nesper, Jonathan, Yousif, Ahmed, Nrisimhamurty, M., and Chini, Michael. Tue .
"All-optical sampling of few-cycle infrared pulses using tunneling in a solid". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.420916.
@article{osti_1782386,
title = {All-optical sampling of few-cycle infrared pulses using tunneling in a solid},
author = {Liu, Yangyang and Gholam-Mirzaei, Shima and Beetar, John E. and Nesper, Jonathan and Yousif, Ahmed and Nrisimhamurty, M. and Chini, Michael},
abstractNote = {Recent developments in ultrafast laser technology have resulted in novel few-cycle sources in the mid-infrared. Accurately characterizing the time-dependent intensities and electric field waveforms of such laser pulses is essential to their applications in strong-field physics and attosecond pulse generation, but this remains a challenge. Recently, it was shown that tunnel ionization can provide an ultrafast temporal “gate” for characterizing high-energy few-cycle laser waveforms capable of ionizing air. Here, we show that tunneling and multiphoton excitation in a dielectric solid can provide a means to measure lower-energy and longer-wavelength pulses, and we apply the technique to characterize microjoule-level near- and mid-infrared pulses. The method lends itself to both all-optical and on-chip detection of laser waveforms, as well as single-shot detection geometries.},
doi = {10.1364/PRJ.420916},
journal = {Photonics Research},
number = 6,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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