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Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses

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The great thing about ultrashort laser pulses is that all their energy is crammed into a very short time, so they have very high power and intensity. A typical ultrashort pulse from a Ti: Sapphire laser oscillator has a paltry nanojoule of energy, but it’s crammed into 100fs, so its peak power is 10,000 Watts. And it can be focused to a micron or so, yielding an intensity of 1012 W/cm2! And it’s easy to amplify such pulses by a factor of 106!

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Trebino, R., Buck, J. (2000). Nonlinear Optics. In: Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1181-6_3

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