title: All-reflective high fringe contrast autocorrelator for measurement of ultrabroadband optical pulses.
abstract: We describe an all-reflective interferometric autocorrelator designed to measure ultrabroadband optical pulses in the UV through IR spectral regions. By carefully choosing the device geometry we are able to obtain approximations for the nonlinear autocorrelation functions that reduce computation times to values acceptable for use in iterative pulse reconstruction schemes. We describe the optical design, autocorrelation functions, and present proof-of-principle experimental results measuring 20.6 fs pulses with a transform limit of 9.6 fs.
authors.affiliation: Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. eppower@eecs.umich.edu
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pentland
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nees
authors.forename: Christoph P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Hauri
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Merano
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lopez-Martens
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mourou