title: High-speed femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy with a smart pixel detector array.
abstract: A new femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy technique is demonstrated that permits the high-speed, parallel acquisition of pump-probe measurements at multiple wavelengths. This is made possible by use of a novel, two-dimensional smart pixel detector array that performs amplitude demodulation in real time on each pixel. This detector array can not only achieve sensitivities comparable with lock-in amplification but also simultaneously performs demodulation of probe transmission signals at multiple wavelengths, thus permitting rapid time- and wavelength-resolved femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. Measurements on a thin sample of bulk GaAs are performed across 58 simultaneous wavelengths. Differential probe transmission changes as small as approximately 2 x 10(-4) can be measured over a 5-ps delay scan in only approximately 3 min. This technology can be applied to a wide range of pump-probe measurements in condensed matter, chemistry, and biology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. bourquin@mit.edu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bourquin
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Prasankumar
authors.forename: F X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Kärtner
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lasser
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Salathé