Generation and Complete Electric-Field Characterization of Intense Ultrashort Tunable Far-Infrared Laser Pulses
- 23 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (8) , 1578-1581
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.1578
Abstract
Intense rapidly tunable picosecond laser pulses have been generated in the far infrared from 30 to 250 μm, a range not well covered by other sources. The transform-limited, diffraction-limited pulses have energies of up to 17 μJ, peak powers of more than 1 MW, a length of only 18 optical periods, and focused intensities of 0.1 . Measurements of both the optical field amplitude and the phase have been performed at 150 μm with a rapid-scanning cross-correlation technique probing the field-induced birefringence in ZnTe with a 10-fs Ti:sapphire laser. The far-infrared laser opens up the exciting possibility of performing nonlinear experiments in a relatively unexplored spectral range.
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