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Description of pulse propagation in a dispersive medium by use of a pulse quality factor.

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Rousseau, Guy [UCL] McCarthy, Nathalie Pichãé, Michel

We investigated how the duration of short laser pulses evolves in a dispersive material, using rms widths and a propagation law based on a pulse quality factor. Experiments were carried out with femtosecond pulses (10 to 25fs at the temporal waist) propagating in bulk fused silica. Excellent agreement was found between theory and experiment. This approach does not require complete characterization of laser pulses and eliminates the need for any assumption regarding the interpretation of autocorrelation traces. The method is of general validity, and it can be applied to pulses of arbitrary shape.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article
Publication date 2002
Journal information "Optics letters" - Vol. 27, no. 18, p. 1649-51 (2002)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0146-9592
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - MD/BICL - Département de biochimie et de biologie cellulaire
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Bibliographic reference Rousseau, Guy ; McCarthy, Nathalie ; Pichãé, Michel. Description of pulse propagation in a dispersive medium by use of a pulse quality factor.. In: Optics letters, Vol. 27, no. 18, p. 1649-51 (2002)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/25622