Laser-triggered ultrafast streak camera for the measurement of ultrashort events on the femtosecond time scale

Christian Y. Cote; Daniel Kaplan; Marcel A. Bouvier; Klaus Eidmann; Joseph S. Tesar; Jean-Claude Kieffer

doi:10.1117/12.323541

24 September 1998 Laser-triggered ultrafast streak camera for the measurement of ultrashort events on the femtosecond time scale

Christian Y. Cote, Daniel Kaplan, Marcel A. Bouvier, Klaus Eidmann, Joseph S. Tesar, Jean-Claude Kieffer

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Proceedings Volume 3414, Opto-Contact: Workshop on Technology Transfers, Start-Up Opportunities,and Strategic Alliances; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323541
Event: Lasers and Materials in Industry and Opto-Contact Workshop, 1998, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

We have developed a new diagnostic that allows accurate time- and space-resolved measurements of low intensity femtosecond light pulses, from the infrared to the hard x- rays. Based on an ultrafast streak camera, this revolutionary tool allows the accumulation of streak traces at rates up to a state-of-the-art 1 kHz which is of great interest to understand the dynamics of ultrafast phenomena in physics and chemistry. Axis Photonique Inc. has commercialized a unique subpicosecond streak camera which was especially developed at INRS-U. of Quebec to record ultrafast events in the x-rays. A laser-triggered sweep unit developed by Medox Electro-Optics Inc. and using high- voltage photoconductive switches designed by Alliage was coupled to the AXIS-PX camera. We present here of the characterization tests performed on a 10 Hz high-power laser at the Max Planck Institut fur Quantenoptik.

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Christian Y. Cote, Daniel Kaplan, Marcel A. Bouvier, Klaus Eidmann, Joseph S. Tesar, and Jean-Claude Kieffer "Laser-triggered ultrafast streak camera for the measurement of ultrashort events on the femtosecond time scale", Proc. SPIE 3414, Opto-Contact: Workshop on Technology Transfers, Start-Up Opportunities,and Strategic Alliances, (24 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323541

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