Single shot measurement of the optical Kerr effect kinetics

Gilles Le Saux (1) , François Salin (1) , Patrick Georges (1) , Gérard Roger (1) , Alain Brun (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa

We present a method allowing measurement of the kinetics of the optical Kerr effect in transparent media using a single femtosecond pulse. This method is based on a spectrotemporal transformation. We describe the experimental results obtained for ultrafast and noninstantaneous responses

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

Gilles Le Saux, François Salin, Patrick Georges, Gérard Roger, Alain Brun. Single shot measurement of the optical Kerr effect kinetics. Applied optics, 1988, 27 (4), pp.777-779. ⟨hal-00691677⟩