Electro-optic Characterization of Synthesized Infrared-visible Light Fields

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Mar 3

PMID 35236857

Authors

Enrico Ridente

Mikhail Mamaikin

Najd Altwaijry

Dmitry Zimin

Matthias F Kling

Vladimir Pervak

Matthew Weidman

Ferenc Krausz

Nicholas Karpowicz

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Abstract

The measurement and control of light field oscillations enable the study of ultrafast phenomena on sub-cycle time scales. Electro-optic sampling (EOS) is a powerful field characterization approach, in terms of both sensitivity and dynamic range, but it has not reached beyond infrared frequencies. Here, we show the synthesis of a sub-cycle infrared-visible pulse and subsequent complete electric field characterization using EOS. The sampled bandwidth spans from 700 nm to 2700 nm (428 to 110 THz). Tailored electric-field waveforms are generated with a two-channel field synthesizer in the infrared-visible range, with a full-width at half-maximum duration as short as 3.8 fs at a central wavelength of 1.7 µm (176 THz). EOS detection of the complete bandwidth of these waveforms extends it into the visible spectral range. To demonstrate the power of our approach, we use the sub-cycle transients to inject carriers in a thin quartz sample for nonlinear photoconductive field sampling with sub-femtosecond resolution.

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