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Investigation of parameters of ultrafast laser pulses
Chlouba, Tomáš ; Němec, Petr (advisor) ; Preclíková, Jana (referee)
In this work we investigate parameters of laser radiation coming from continual titan-sapphire laser 3900S, pulsed titan-sapphire laser Mai-Tai HP and from optical parametric oscillator Inspire made by Spectra Physics. We are particulary insterested in dependence of power, width of the beam, noise and beam pointing stability as a function of wavelength. We have also measured beam pointing stability in time and compared it with beam stability during change of wavelength. With pulse laser we are also interested in the spectra and time width of the pulses. We aim to compare the properties of both titan-sapphire lasers and to verify specifications of Mai-Tai and Inspire given by the manufacturer.
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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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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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Investigation of parameters of ultrafast laser pulses
Chlouba, Tomáš ; Němec, Petr (advisor) ; Preclíková, Jana (referee)
In this work we investigate parameters of laser radiation coming from continual titan-sapphire laser 3900S, pulsed titan-sapphire laser Mai-Tai HP and from optical parametric oscillator Inspire made by Spectra Physics. We are particulary insterested in dependence of power, width of the beam, noise and beam pointing stability as a function of wavelength. We have also measured beam pointing stability in time and compared it with beam stability during change of wavelength. With pulse laser we are also interested in the spectra and time width of the pulses. We aim to compare the properties of both titan-sapphire lasers and to verify specifications of Mai-Tai and Inspire given by the manufacturer.
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