Femtosecond pulse front tilt caused by angular dispersion

Zsolt Bor; Bela Racz; Gabor Szabo; Margit Hilbert; H. A. Hazim

doi:10.1117/12.145393

1 October 1993 Femtosecond pulse front tilt caused by angular dispersion

Zsolt Bor, Bela Racz, Gabor Szabo, Margit Hilbert, H. A. Hazim

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, Issue 10, (October 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.145393

Abstract

Femtosecond pulse fronts suffer a time delay across the beam when propagating through diffraction gratings or dispersive prisms. A general relation was found describing the tilt angle γ of the pulse front as, tanγ=λdε/dλ where dε/dλ is the angular dispersion of the grating or prism and λ is the central wavelength of the pulse. The expression is valid for any spectral device having angular dispersion (e.g., Fabry-Pérot interferometer, Lummer-Gehrcke plate, and Michelson echelon). The tilt angle is shown to have a close relation to the classical uncertainty principle.

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Zsolt Bor, Bela Racz, Gabor Szabo, Margit Hilbert, and H. A. Hazim "Femtosecond pulse front tilt caused by angular dispersion," Optical Engineering 32(10), (1 October 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.145393

Published: 1 October 1993

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