High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 02000e18(2016)

Plasma-mirror frequency-resolved optical gating for simultaneous retrieval of a chirped vacuum-ultraviolet waveform and time-dependent reflectivity

Ryuji Itakura1, Takayuki Kumada2, Motoyoshi Nakano3, and Hiroshi Akagi1
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  • 1Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai
  • 2Nuclear Science and Research Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
  • 3Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Aramaki-Aoba Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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    (a) Measured plasma-mirror FROG trace. The VUV pulse generated in the Ar cell passes the LiF lens prior to the plasma-mirror reflection. (b) FROG trace retrieved with the LSGPA. The FROG error is $G=0.058472$. The size of the FROG traces is $256\times 210$ pixels.
    Temporal waveform of the VUV pulse extracted from the plasma-mirror FROG trace in Figure 1(a) by (a) the LSGPA and (b) the PCGPA. The solid and dotted lines indicate the intensity and relative phase, respectively. The intensity is normalized at the maximum.
    Plasma-mirror reflectivity difference, $R(t)-R_{0}$, extracted from the plasma-mirror FROG trace in Figure 1(a) based on (a) the LSGPA and (b) the PCGPA.
    Measured plasma-mirror FROG trace. The VUV pulse generated in the Ar cell passes the LiF lens and the $\text{CaF}_{2}$ plate prior to the plasma-mirror reflection. (b) FROG trace retrieved with the LSGPA. The FROG error is $G=0.037868$. The size of the FROG traces is $256\times 330$ pixels.
    (a) Temporal and (b) spectral waveform of the VUV pulse extracted from the plasma-mirror FROG trace in Figure 4(a) based on the LSGPA. The solid and dotted lines indicate the intensity and relative phase, respectively. The intensity is normalized at the maximum. The GDD induced by the LiF lens and the $\text{CaF}_{2}$ plate is plotted as a grey line in (b).
    Plasma-mirror reflectivity difference, $R(t)-R_{0}$, extracted from the plasma-mirror FROG trace in Figure 4(a) based on the LSGPA.
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    Ryuji Itakura, Takayuki Kumada, Motoyoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Akagi. Plasma-mirror frequency-resolved optical gating for simultaneous retrieval of a chirped vacuum-ultraviolet waveform and time-dependent reflectivity[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2016, 4(2): 02000e18

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    Special Issue: ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

    Received: Feb. 29, 2016

    Accepted: May. 2, 2016

    Published Online: Nov. 1, 2016

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    DOI:10.1017/hpl.2016.18

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