Single-frame measurement of complete spatiotemporal field of ultrashort laser pulses using frequency domain separate spectral interferometry

Abstract

The spatiotemporal coupling distortion of large aperture ultra-high peak power laser will degrade the pulsed beam in both near-field and far-field. To accurately predict the light field distribution at the focus and compensate for the spatiotemporal coupling distortion, a single-frame measurement of full three-dimensional spatiotemporal coupling distortion is proposed based on the frequency domain separate spatial-spectral interference. The setup requires only a slit array attached to the front of an Imaging spectroradiometer. The whole procedure of carrier frequency distinguished spectral interference measurement is simulated in this study. The simulation results prove that the presented measuring method is correct and effective. The effectiveness of this method will be further verified experimentally in next step.