Single-shot Complete Spatiotemporal Measurement of Complex Ultrashort Laser Pulses
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چکیده
The birth of laser in the 1960s opened up a new era for optics. Many interesting laser applications arose ever since in subjects like nonlinear optics, holography, spectroscopy, and quantum optics [1-4]. Among those, ultrafast optics is an emerging area that frequently catches people’s attention. Ultrafast optics deals with short pulses in time scale ranging from picosecond down to attosecond, generated from all variety of pulsed laser systems by approaches like mode-locking and Q-switching. The ultrashort temporal width, together with the resulting ultrahigh peak intensity and ultrabroad spectral bandwidth, of the generated pulses leads to special academic interests in studying ultrafast phenomena, nonlinear optical effects, broadband spectroscopy, and so on [5-7].
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