%0 Journal Article
%A Kubullek, Maximilian
%A Silva Toledo, Miguel Angel
%A Mainz, Roland E.
%A Scheiba, Fabian
%A de Q. Garcia, Rafael
%A Ritzkowsky, Felix
%A Rossi, Giulio Maria
%A Kärtner, Franz X.
%T Complete electric field characterization of ultrashort multi-colour pulses
%J Ultrafast science
%V 5
%@ 2097-0331
%C Washington, DC
%I American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS
%M PUBDB-2025-00454
%P 0081
%D 2025
%X The advancement of laser technology, producing increasingly shorter and more intricate optical pulses, has elevated the significance of precise characterization of a transient electric field, including the carrier-envelope phase. This characterization must cover progressively larger spectral bands and be performed as close as possible to the experimental site to enable a detailed understanding of the coherent light–matter interaction. Furthermore, in many experiments, two (or more) different ultrashort pulses are used, calling for a technique capable of characterizing multiple electric fields simultaneously. Here, we introduce the TREX (third-order reconstruction of electric fields via cross(X)-correlation) method, which allows the all-optical, in situ characterization of the complete electric fields of 2 broadband pulses with different central wavelengths. The method relies on the measurement of the perturbative third-order nonlinear response generated in a noble gas target while varying the delay between 2 pulses. The resulting spectrograms can be reconstructed using a custom evolutionary algorithm. The technique is demonstrated by retrieving the complete electric field, including the carrier-envelope phase, generated by the coherent synthesis of 2 ultrashort pulses. These synthesized waveforms reach time durations below a single optical cycle, demonstrating the ability of TREX to characterize complex multioctave-spanning electric fields.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001418823900001
%R 10.34133/ultrafastscience.0081
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/622659