(1) Department of Physics, Sofia University, 5 J. Bourchier Blvd., BG-1164 Sofia, Bulgaria;(2) Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tzarigradsko Shosse Blvd., BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
Abstract:
A method for ultrashort pulse-duration measurement is analysed both theoretically and experimentally. The approach is based on a time-resolved induced phase modulation of a probe beam-pulse in a two-colour Z-scan configuration. The experimental results presented are in good agreement with the simple analytical result derived for retrieving unknown pulse width.