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Femtosecond imaging

Motion picture of short pulses

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Researchers in Japan have now extended the capability of light-in-flight holography to femtosecond pulse durations in the visible wavelength range.

Light-in-flight (LIF) holography is a technique that allows the propagation of light pulses to be visualized as a dynamic hologram travelling along a holographic plate1. It is a powerful technique that has a great number of possibilities in both applied and theoretical physics, and is the only currently available method for recording the shape of a wavefront in three dimensions at femtosecond resolution2. LIF holography has been used as a gating method for medical applications3 and has also helped to explain apparent object deformations at relativistic velocities in cosmology.

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Figure 1: Extending the LIF holography technique to femtosecond pulse durations at visible wavelengths.

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  1. Nils Abramson is in the Department of Metrology and Optics at the Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm 70, Sweden,

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Abramson, N. Motion picture of short pulses. Nature Photon 5, 389–390 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.138

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