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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624387503321

Autore

Hofer Christina

Titolo

Detection efficiency and bandwidth optimized electro-optic sampling of mid-infrared waves / / Christina Hofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783031153280

9783031153273

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 pages)

Collana

Springer theses

Disciplina

681.2

Soggetti

Detectors

Infrared radiation

Electrooptics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Doctoral Thesis accepted by Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Garching, Germany."--Title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Supervisor's Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction and Motivation -- References -- 2 Theoretical Background -- 2.1 Linear Optics -- 2.2 Perturbative Nonlinear Optics -- 2.3 Theoretical Description of EOS -- 2.3.1 Sum- and Difference-Frequency Generation -- 2.3.2 Pockels-Effect -- 2.3.3 Comparison to Time-Integrating MIR Characterization Techniques -- 2.4 Nonlinear Crystals and Phasematching -- 2.5 Noise in Balanced Detection -- 2.6 Techniques to Improve the EOS Dynamic Range and Sensitivity -- References -- 3 Simulation Results for EOS -- 3.1 Wavelength-Dependent EOS Signal for Thick Detection Crystals -- 3.2 MIR Depletion and Amplification for Phasematching SFG or DFG -- 3.3 Temporal and Spectral Transfer Functions -- 3.4 Detection Bandwidths for Different Gate Pulse Wavelengths -- 3.5 Pre-chirping of 1550-nm Gate Pulses -- References -- 4 Experimental Results -- 4.1 Optimization and Characterization of EOS with 1-m Gate Pulses -- 4.2 Dynamic Range and Background-Reduced Measurements -- 4.3 Bandwidth-Efficiency Trade-Off -- 4.4 Multiple Reflections from GaSe -- 4.5 Application of High-DR EOS: Waveform Stability Analysis -- 4.6 EOS with 1550-nm Gate Pulses -- 4.7 EOS with 2-m Gate Pulses -- 4.8



Optimized 2-m EOS: Reaching Percent-Level Detection Efficiency -- 4.9 Linearity of Large Depletion EOS Measurements -- References -- 5 Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- Appendix A Data Archiving -- Appendix B Setup of the 2-m EOS -- Appendix C Curriculum Vitae.