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15 December 2023 Spectrum shuttle for producing spatially shapable GHz burst pulses
Keitaro Shimada, Ayumu Ishijima, Takao Saiki, Ichiro Sakuma, Yuki Inada, Keiichi Nakagawa
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Abstract

Spatiotemporal shaping of ultrashort pulses is pivotal for various technologies, such as burst laser ablation and ultrafast imaging. However, the difficulty of pulse stretching to subnanosecond intervals and independent control of the spatial profile for each pulse limit their advancement. We present a pulse manipulation technique for producing spectrally separated GHz burst pulses from a single ultrashort pulse, where each pulse is spatially shapable. We demonstrated the production of pulse trains at intervals of 0.1 to 3 ns in the 800- and 400-nm wavelength bands and applied them to ultrafast single-shot transmission spectroscopic imaging (4 Gfps) of laser ablation dynamics with two-color sequentially timed all-optical mapping photography. Furthermore, we demonstrated the production of pulse trains containing a shifted or dual-peak pulse as examples of individual spatial shaping of GHz burst pulses. Our proposed technique brings unprecedented spatiotemporal manipulation of GHz burst pulses, which can be useful for a wide range of laser applications.

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Keitaro Shimada, Ayumu Ishijima, Takao Saiki, Ichiro Sakuma, Yuki Inada, and Keiichi Nakagawa "Spectrum shuttle for producing spatially shapable GHz burst pulses," Advanced Photonics Nexus 3(1), 016002 (15 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.APN.3.1.016002
Received: 9 August 2023; Accepted: 23 November 2023; Published: 15 December 2023
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KEYWORDS
Ultrafast phenomena

Pulse signals

Mirrors

Education and training

Spatial light modulators

Imaging spectroscopy

Laser ablation

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