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Time-resolved laser spectroscopy of nanomaterials
Kozák, Martin
Title: Time-resolved laser spectroscopy of nanomaterials: Study of nonlinearities using z-scan method Author: Martin Kozák Department: Department of chemical physics and optics Supervisor: Doc. RNDr. František Trojánek, Ph.D. Supervisor e-mail adress: Frantisek.Trojanek@mff.cuni.cz Abstract: This diploma thesis is oriented to study of nonlinear properties in semiconductor nanocrystals using ultrashort femtosecond pulses. There is a detailed description of theory and experimental setup of the z-scan method, which can be used to measure the nonlinear refractive index and two-photon absorption coefficient. In the theoretical part we describe the influence of measurement by quality of laser beam, quality and thickness of the sample. There are numerical simulations of measurements influenced by these parameters. This theory is used for processing of measured dates by a simple program, which is attached to this thesis on CD. In experimental part we were measured nonlinear refractive indeces of diamond nanocrystals fabricated by the PECVD method, silicon and CdS nanocrystals in glass matrices. One part of this thesis was also the preparation and optimalization of experimental setup and increasing the signal/noise ratio. Keywords: Z-scan, Kerr effect, nonlinear refractive index, two-photon absorption, nanocrystals
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Generation of carrier-envelope-stable few-cycle pulses in the mid-infrared spectral region
Peterka, Pavel ; Kozák, Martin (advisor) ; Žídek, Karel (referee)
In this thesis we present the realization of a source of 1.5-cycle carrier-envelope phase stable laser pulses in the mid-infrared spectral region. We used ytterbium laser system generating 1 µm pulses as a pump of setup, where the beam is split into several parts and interact in nonlinear optical media. 2 µJ pulses with duration 18 fs at 50 kHz repe- tition rate are produced. By spectral broadening in crystal GGG, 9,9 fs pulses can be achieved. The mid-IR pulses was characterized by third harmonics generation frequency resolved optical gating in the interferometric configuration. Fourier filtering of the mea- sured interferogram allows for the complete reconstruction of amplitude and phase of the ultrashort pulses generated by our setup. The pulses will in future serve for experimental investigation of ultrafast strong-field phenomena in solids. 1
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Time and spectral properties of emICCD camera
Šatra, Šimon ; Trojánek, František (advisor) ; Kozák, Martin (referee)
In this work we focus on determining the properties of emICCD camera PI-MAX4: 512 EM, which is connected to IsoPlane 320 spectrograph. The first chapter contains a brief description of emICCD detection and a summary of parameters of the camera, spectrograph and basics of Lightfield software. The second chapter is dedicated to descri- bing the utilization rate of the gain function, the spectral resolution and comparing the emICCD camera with a classic CCD camera. This work should provide a summary of the basics about the emICCD camera together with the information which are fundamental to its right operation. 1
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Spectroscopy of semiconductors with ultra-high time resolution
Hanák, Martin ; Trojánek, František (advisor) ; Kozák, Martin (referee)
This thesis is aimed at building and optimization of a new experiment setup for measuring time-resolved transmittance using a pump-probe method. Test measurements were then conducted on a sample of SiV centers in diamond. The theoretical part contains a general description of luminescence of color centers. It then specifically focuses on SiV centers in diamond and describes their structure, electronic and spectral properties in detail. The description of our setup and its optimization is given at the beginning of the experimental part. The dependencies of differential transmittance of SiV centers in diamond on excitation intensity and wavelength were measured and the lifetime of SiV centers was then determined from our measurement results. 1
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Nonlinear optical frequency conversion of few-cycle laser pulses
Koutenský, Petr ; Kozák, Martin (advisor) ; Galář, Pavel (referee)
Title: Nonlinear optical frequency conversion of few-cycle laser pulses Author: Petr Koutenský Department: Department of Chemical Physics and Optics Supervisor: RNDr. Martin Kozák, Ph.D., Department of Chemical Physics and Optics Abstract: The goal of the thesis was to achieve generation of second harmonic frequency from ultrashort laser pulses with central wavelength of 780 nm and to compress the generated pulses to the shortest possible time duration. We have studied and optimized the efficiency of second harmonic frequency generation from wide spectrum laser, which generates ultrashort pulses with a duration of few femtoseconds. Firstly we have developed and optimized the experimental setup for the highest power output of the generated second harmonic frequency pulses. Afterwards we measured the duration of the generated pulses using nonlinear optical cross- correlation with the pulses at the fundamental frequency generated by the laser. Cross- correlation was obtained from sum frequency generation in a thin nonlinear BBO crystal. The pulses at the second harmonic frequency were compressed to a duration of 13 femtoseconds by combining wide spectrum mirrors with negative dispersion of group velocities and thin fused silica wedges. These ultrashort pulses will be used in experiments with high time...
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Laser-driven hard X-ray source for imaging applications
Lamač, Marcel ; Nejdl, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kozák, Martin (referee)
With the advent of high-power lasers in recent decades, a unique source of hard X-ray radiation has become availible. This source of collimated, broadband, femtosecond, incoherent and hard X-ray radiation is produced when a focused laser with intensity above 10^18 W/cm^2 collides with a gas target. The strong electric field of the laser pulse ionizes the gas and interacts with the plasma generating a strong plasma wake wave. This space charge separation inside the target generates longitudal electric fields of the order of 100 GV/m. This resulting electrostatic wakefield accelerates the electrons to relativistic velocities and causes them to travel in oscillatory motion behind the laser pulse, producing hard and collimated X-ray radiation. This thesis is focused on a theoretical evaluation and an experimental design of this laser-plasma X-ray source. Furthermore, we consider the source's unique properties for novel imaging applications.
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Dispersion management of a 10 PW laser system
Vyhlídka, Štěpán ; Rus, Bedřich (advisor) ; Jelínková, Helena (referee) ; Kozák, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the design of a stretcher and compressor systems used for the chirped pulse amplification method for the L4 beamline. The L4 beamline is being developed for the ELI Beamlines project and aims to deliver pulses with peak power of 10 petawatt, central wavelength of 1060 nanometers, pulse duration of 150 femtoseconds and energy of 1500 Joules. Since the laser induced damage threshold and aperture of commercial diffraction gratings is currently a limiting factor in reaching higher peak powers, it was necessary to increase the effective aperture of the compressor using either tiled grating or object-image-grating self tiling methods. These two methods are compared for two compressor configurations using either 1740 ln/mm or 1136 ln/mm diffraction gratings, methods for their alignment are discussed and the selected alignment method is experimentally tested. Moreover, an analytical theory connecting the Seidel aberrations of the stretcher imaging system with the spectral phase deviation of the stretched pulse is presented. This theory is applied to commonly used Banks and Offner stretcher designs and it is demonstrated how it can be employed for the suppression of residual spectral phase of compressed pulses. Next, the design of the stretcher for the L4 beamline based on this theory is...
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Gout diet
KOZÁK, Martin
This Bachelor's thesis, that is concerned with the disease gout, is divided into 3 parts. Theoretical part of this thesis is dedicated to the description of this disease, including its treatment and related diet measures, which have to be followed. Part of this study is a research of respondents with gout disease. This research was made as an interview with the respondents and it discovers necessary information including their diet. Results of this research are described at the end of this thesis and it shows that gout disease cannot be treated only with pharmaceutical means, but it is important to follow appropriate diet including an overall change of a life style
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Terahertz radiation in nanostructures
Hendrych, Erik ; Ostatnický, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kozák, Martin (referee)
We explore conductivity of nanostructures in the terahertz range. We model the nanostructure as a square potential well with a barrier inside. We examine how the conductivity depends on temperature, material constants and dimensions of the potential well. The conductivity of the material determines the complex refractive index and thus influences its optical properties such as reflexivity, transmittance and attenuation coefficient. We construct the functional dependency of the conductivity on the electric field frequency. The maxima of this functional dependency correspond to spectral lines. We examined the dependency of the frequencies of the maxima (spectral lines) on various parameters. We got the most interesting result when we continuously changed the position of the barrier inside the potential well. For different heights of the barrier we got qualitatively different results. With high barrier the system behaves as two separate potential wells where we can see monotonous functional dependency of the spectral lines on the position of the barrier. With low potential barrier we get oscillating dependencies. For gallium arsenide and 2 nm width of the potential barrier, high barrier is higher than 1 eV, while low barrier is lower than 0, 05 eV.
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Novel technique for characterization of ultrashort optical pulses
Peterka, Pavel ; Kozák, Martin (advisor) ; Ostatnický, Tomáš (referee)
Ultrashort laser pulses are nowadays widely used in both the basic and applied reseach as well as in a wide range of applications. Application of laser pulses requires their complete characterization from the point of view of temporal evolution of field amplitude and frequency on femtosecond timescales. This thesis is focused on a new method for ultrashort pulse characterization, which involves measuring spectral interference between input pulse and the pulse transmitted through a medium with cubic nonlinear susceptibility. The new method is inte- resting compared to the established techniques mainly because of its simplicity, as it requires only one medium with cubic nonlinear susceptibility and a spectro- meter. We have implemented the technique experimentally and determined pulse duration and phase for ideally compressed pulse.
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