N. Dimitrov, L. Stoyanov, I. Stefanov, A. Dreischuh, P. Hansinger, G. G. Paulus
Abstract.
In this work we report experimental investigations of an intentionally introduced pulse front tilt on femtosecond laser pulses by using an inverted field correlator/interferometer. A reliable criterion for the precision in aligning (in principle) dispersionless systems for manipulating ultrashort pulses is developed, specifically including cases when the pulse front tilt is a result of a desired spatio-temporal coupling. The results obtained using two low-dispersion diffraction gratings are in good qualitative agreement with the data from a previously developed analytical model and from an independent interferometric measurement (see Paper A70).
Keywords: Ultrafast measurements, femtosecond
pulses, pulse front tilt,inverted
field correlator, inverted field interferometer,
(auto)correlation.
PACS: 42.65.Re, 42.79.Hp, 42.60.Jf, 42.60.By.