Abstract
We have measured the performance of a real spectral phase interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction (SPIDER) apparatus operating under suboptimal conditions. We analyzed the errors in SPIDER’s measurements of the temporal phases and intensities of 50-fs ultrashort laser pulses as a function of the additive noise in the detected signal. It was found that SPIDER performs exceptionally well, particularly in the case of additive noise. Specifically, a signal with 10% noise yields a pulse that has a mere 2% error in its intensity profile and a phase that differs from the nominal value by 0.2 rad. Furthermore, we quantified SPIDER’s performance with limited detector resolution and as a function of signal averaging.
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