High-resolution Interferometric Diagnostics for Ultrashort Pulses

PublicationsThe following publications arose out of work connected to this dissertation:D. R. Austin, T. Witting, C. A. Arrell, F. Frank, A. S. Wyatt, J. P. Marangos, J. W. G. Tischand I. A. Walmsley, “Lateral shearing interferometry of high-harmonic wavefronts,”submitted to Opt. Lett. 3 February 2011.D. J. McCabe, D. R. Austin, A. Tajalli, S. Weber, I. A. Walmsley and B. Chatel, “Space–time coupling of shaped ultrafast ultraviolet pulses from an acousto-optic programmabledispersive filter,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 28, 58–64 (2011).D. R. Austin, T. Witting, and I. A. Walmsley, “Resolution of the relative phase ambiguityin spectral shearing interferometry of ultrashort pulses,” Opt. Lett. 35, 1971–1973(2010).D. R. Austin, T. Witting, A. S. Wyatt, and I. A. Walmsley, “Measuring sub-Planck structuralanalogues in chronocyclic phase space,” Opt. Commun. 283, 855–859 (2010).Quo vadis Quantum Optics?T. Witting, D. R. Austin, and I. A. Walmsley, “Ultrashort pulse characterization by spectralshearing interferometry with spatially chirped ancillae,” Opt. Express 17, 18983–18994 (2009).D. R. Austin, T. Witting, and I. A. Walmsley, “High precision self-referenced phase retrievalof complex pulses with multiple-shearing spectral interferometry,” J. Opt. Soc.Am. B 26, 1818–1830 (2009).D. R. Austin, T. Witting, and I. A. Walmsley, “Broadband astigmatism-free Czerny-Turner imaging spectrometer using spherical mirrors,” Appl. Opt. 48, 3846–3853(2009).T. Witting, D. R. Austin, and I. A. Walmsley, “Improved ancilla preparation in spectralshearing interferometry for accurate ultrafast pulse characterization,” Opt. Lett. 34,881–883 (2009).