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@PHDTHESIS{Hartwell:474262,
author = {Hartwell, Samuel},
othercontributors = {Laarmann, Tim},
title = {{C}oherent femtosecond pulse shaping towards the short
wavelength regime},
school = {Universität Hamburg},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Hamburg},
publisher = {Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY},
reportid = {PUBDB-2022-00642, DESY-THESIS-2022-001},
series = {DESY-THESIS},
pages = {124},
year = {2022},
note = {Dissertation, Universität Hamburg, 2021},
abstract = {Since the advent of the first camera, flashes of light have
been an integral tool in observing the world around us.
Following the creation of the laser, these flashes of light
have been getting temporally shorter and shorter, allowing
faster and faster phenomena to be observed. Now these pulses
can be as short as femtoseconds, or even a few attoseconds.
Control over these short pulses also can allow observation
and enable control over dynamics in matter. In the present
thesis the complete characterisation of an all-reflective 4f
pulse shaper is presented. A periodic spectral amplitude
modulation is applied to a femtosecond Deep-UltraViolet
(DUV) pulse within an open-loop shaping control scheme. The
DUV pulse is produced via nonlinear frequency up-conversion
from a fundamental infrared pulse. The pulses before and
after this device are fully characterised in time, frequency
and chirp. Transmission of the device in the DUV is also
measured and data is given. Due to the all-reflective nature
of the device it is capable of operating with coherent
pulses at short wavelengths, such as pulses produced from a
seeded free-electron laser via High-Gain Harmonic Generation
(HGHG). The coherent pulses produced this way via seeding
use the same DUV laser as is used to operate the pulse
shaper and are generated as harmonics of the seed. The
diffraction gratings in the shaper are designed such that
harmonics of the seed laser follow the beampath of the DUV
pulse through the pulse shaper, minimising the need for
realignment. The coherent extreme-ultraviolet pulses
produced from the seeded free-electron laser operating in
HGHG are characterised in time and frequency by terahertz
streaking. Chirp is applied to the ultraviolet seed pulse
and the effect upon the output seeded free-electron laser
pulse is explored with temporal pulse characterisation
methods. Control over pulse shaping in the DUV and towards
soft x-rays is interesting for applications such as coherent
control, where dynamical processes in matter are controlled
by coherent light fields.},
cin = {FS-PS},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-PS-20131107},
pnm = {6G2 - FLASH (DESY) (POF4-6G2) / PHGS, VH-GS-500 - PIER
Helmholtz Graduate School $(2015_IFV-VH-GS-500)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G2 / $G:(DE-HGF)2015_IFV-VH-GS-500$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)F-sFLASH-20171201},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)3 / PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2022-00642},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/474262},
}