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Frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) is now one of the main methods of characterizing the ultrashort laser pulses. There are mainly three SHG-FROG methods, i.e. the standard FROG, the single-shot FROG and GRENOUILLE, each of which has its own features and application areas. Although the standard SHG-FROG has balanced advantages in sensitivity, accuracy and applicability for various test pulses, its speed is much slower than the others’: it often takes a few seconds or even minutes to record the FROG trace, which is dependent on the size of FROG image. Nowadays continuous development of the technique of digital imaging brings to high resolution CCD/CMOS image cameras with tens of millions pixels and fast refreshing rate. Unfortunately the standard FROG cannot make use of these image cameras for the real-time measurement of ultrashort pulses. To solve this problem, in this paper a rapid-scanning FROG device based on the standard SHG-FROG is demonstrated, where sinusoidal waves from a signal generator synchronously drive a voice coil actuator and a galvo-scanner, so that the spectra of the autocorrelation at different delays are successively reflected onto an area camera. As long as the camera is triggered to shoot continuously, the entire FROG trace can be recorded quickly within 1 s. Furthermore, several guidelines for good performance with this device are provided, including the settings of the amplitude and frequency of the driving sinusoidal waves, the selections of the focuses of the collimating lens F1 and the focusing lens F2, and the method of delay calibration. This device is suitable for the real-time measurement of ultrashort pulses with large chirps or complex structures where large-size FROG images need to be captured. In order to show the capability of this device, femtosecond pulses delivered directly from a home-made Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti: sapphire laser as well as the chirp pulses dispersed by a 200 mm-thick BK7 slab are measured. Two scan ranges are selected in order to achieve enough effective data points in the FROG traces of these two test pulses. Using standard procedure of pulse retrieval of FROG, the two pulses are reconstructed with pulse widths 58 fs and 492 fs, respectively. From the retrieved spectral phases of these test pulses, the GDD value of the BK7 slab can be deduced to be 8740 fs2, which is in good agreement with the theoretical value of 8815 fs2. Thus the experimental results confirm the accuracy and applicability of this FROG device.
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Keywords:
- frequency-resolved optical gating /
- ultrashort pulse /
- real time measurement /
- rapid-scanning
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图 1 快速扫描FROG装置结构图
Figure 1. Experimental setup of rapid-scanning FROG device.
图 3 重构出的脉冲A强度包络和相位曲线
Figure 3. Reconstructed intensity and phase curves of pulse A.
图 4 重构出的脉冲B强度包络和相位曲线
Figure 4. Reconstructed intensity and phase curves of pulse B.
图 2 脉冲A和脉冲B的FROG迹线图
Figure 2. FROG traces of pulses A and B.
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[1] 张顺浓, 朱伟骅, 李炬赓, 金钻明, 戴晔, 张宗芝, 马国宏, 姚建铨 2018 67 197202
Google Scholar
Zhang S N, Zhu W H, Li J G, Jin Z M, Dai Y, Zhang Z Z, Ma G H, Yao J Q 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 197202
Google Scholar
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Li M, Wang Z H, Teng H, He X K, Han H N, Li D H, Wei Z Y, Szymon S 2018 Sci. Sin.-Phys. Mech. Astron. 48 024201
[3] 彭博, 曲兴华, 张福民, 张天宇, 张铁犁, 刘晓旭, 谢阳 2018 67 210601
Google Scholar
Peng B, Qu X H, Zhang F M, Zhang T Y, Zhang T L, Liu X X, Xie Y 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 210601
Google Scholar
[4] Zeweil A H 2000 J. Phys. Chem. A 104 5660
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Huang P, Fang S B, Huang H D, Zhao K, Teng H, Hou X, Wei Z Y 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 214202
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Wang Z H, Wei Z Y, Teng H, Wang P, Zhang J 2003 Acta Phys. Sin. 52 362
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Ma X L, Li P L, Guo H L, Zhang Y, Zhu T Y, Cao F J 2014 Acta Phys. Sin. 63 240601
Google Scholar
[12] Palaniyappan S, Shah R C, Johnson R, Shimada T, Gautier D C, Letzring S, Jung D, Hrlein R, Offermann D T, Fernndez J C, Hegelich B M 2010 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81 10E103
Google Scholar
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[14] O’Shea P, Kimmel M, Gu X, Trebino R 2001 Opt. Lett. 26 932
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[20] Kane D J 2008 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25 A120
Google Scholar
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