%0 Journal Article
%T Spatial-domain interferometer for measuring plasma mirror expansion
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%A Bocoum, M
%A Böhle, F
%A Vernier, A.
%A Jullien, Aurélie
%A Faure, J.
%A Lopez-Martens, R.
%Z ANR APERO
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%@ 0146-9592
%J Optics Letters
%I Optical Society of America - OSA Publishing
%8 2015-06-18
%D 2015
%R 10.1364/OL.40.003009
%K Phase measurement
%K (110.3175) Interferometric imaging
%K (070.7145) Ultrafast processing
%K (320.7100) Ultrafast measurements.
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph]Journal articles
%X We present a practical spatial-domain interferometer for characterizing the electronic density gradient of laser- induced plasma mirrors with sub-30-femtosecond temporal resolution. Time-resolved spatial imaging of an intensity- shaped pulse reflecting off an expanding plasma mirror in- duced by a time-delayed pre-pulse allows us to measure characteristic plasma gradients of 10–100 nm with an ex- pansion velocity of 10.8 nm/ps. Spatial-domain interferom- etry (SDI) can be generalized to the ultrafast imaging of nm to μm size laser-induced phenomena at surfaces.
%G English
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%U https://hal-ensta-paris.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01229263
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