Precise in-situ measurement of laser pulse intensity using strong field ionization.
Open Access
- 28 April 2011
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 19 (10), 9336-9344
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.19.009336
Abstract
Building on the work of Alnaser et al. [Phys. Rev. A 70, 023413 (2004)], we devise an improved method for an in-situ measurement of the peak intensity in a focused, femtosecond infrared laser pulse. The method is shown to be effective with both photoion and photoelectron imaging devices. The model used to fit the experimental data has no unphysical free parameters used in fitting. The accuracy of the fit is 4% and the overall accuracy of the measurement is 8%.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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