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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Dilemma

   • Rick Trebino

   Pages 1-10

3. Ultrashort Laser Pulses

   • Rick Trebino, Erik Zeek

   Pages 11-35

4. Nonlinear Optics

   • Rick Trebino, John Buck

   Pages 37-60

5. The Autocorrelation, the Spectrum, and Phase Retrieval

   • Rick Trebino, Erik Zeek

   Pages 61-99

6. FROG

   • Rick Trebino

   Pages 101-115

7. FROG Beam Geometries

   • Rick Trebino

   Pages 117-139

8. Geometrical Issues: Single-shot FROG

   • Rick Trebino

   Pages 141-156

9. The FROG Algorithm

   • Marco A. Krumbuegel, Rick Trebino

   Pages 157-178

10. Noise: Its Effects and Suppression

    • David N. Fittinghoff, Michael Munroe

    Pages 179-201

11. Practical Issues, Marginals, Error Checks, and Error Correction

    • Greg Taft, Ken DeLong

    Pages 203-218

12. Improvisation in FROG

    • Rick Trebino

    Pages 219-228

13. Very Simple FROG Apparatus: GRENOUILLE

    • Rick Trebino, Patrick O’Shea, Mark Kimmel, Xun Gu

    Pages 229-236

14. Ultraviolet and High-Power Pulse Measurement

    • Sterling Backus, Charles Durfee

    Pages 237-255

15. FROG in the Single-Cycle Regime

    • Andrius Baltuska, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov, Douwe A. Wiersma

    Pages 257-303

16. FROG Characterization of Pulses with Complex Intensity and Phase Substructure

    • John M. Dudley

    Pages 305-312

17. XFROG—Cross-correlation Frequency-resolved Optical Gating

    • Stefan Linden, Jürgen Kuhl, Harald Giessen

    Pages 313-322

18. Measuring Extremely Complex Pulses

    • Rick Trebino, Xun Gu, Erik Zeek, Mark Kimmel

    Pages 323-330

19. Non-instantaneous Nonlinearities

    • Rick Trebino

    Pages 331-336

20. Fiber-FROG

    • John M. Dudley, John D. Harvey, Mark D. Thomson

    Pages 337-343

The Frequency-Resolved Optical-Gating (FROG) technique has revolutionized our ability to measure and understand ultrashort laser pulses. This book contains everything you need to know to measure even the shortest, weakest, or most complex ultrashort laser pulses. Whether you're an undergrad or an advanced researcher, you'll find easy-to-understand descriptions of all the key ideas behind all the FROG techniques, all the practical details of pulse measurement, and many new directions of research.
This book is not like any other scientific book. It is a lively discussion of the basic concepts. It is an advanced treatment of research-level issues.

• Phase
• laser
• nonlinear optics
• optics
• polarization

• Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, Atlanta, USA

  Rick Trebino

Rick Trebino is the Georgia Research Alliance-Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optics in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University and has specialized in the measurement of ultrashort laser pulses for the last decade. He is the co-inventor of the FROG techniques as well as other techniques for measuring pulses.

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