title: Interferometric polarization pulse shaper stabilized by an external laser diode for arbitrary vector field shaping.
abstract: We achieved reliable and stable generation of pulses with all possible polarization states by a Mach-Zehnder pulse shaper. This was realized by incorporating a stabilization mechanism using an external laser diode in the interferometric pulse shaper. This stabilization mechanism has overcome an inherent instability in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, which caused serious distortion of shaped pulses. For a demonstration of polarization shaping, we generated and measured chiral pulses with a rotating major axis of polarizing orientations at arbitrary frequencies. We expect these chiral pulses enables us to study on new chirality-related light-matter interactions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei 184-8588, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Misawa