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Physical Review Letters

Intensity Interference of Ultrashort Pulsed Fluorescence

Motoyoshi Baba, Ying Li, Masahiro Matsuoka

Published Jun 17, 1996• 9 citations
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Abstract

We extend the intensity interference experiments to a pulse envelope measurement of ultrashort incoherent optical pulses. The interfering fields can be mutually incoherent light pulses from independent sources. We show that the pulse envelope or width of ultrashort incoherent light pulses can be measured independently from the coherence time by using a combination of interferometer and two-photon coincidence counter. With this method we have measured the envelope autocorrelation of mutually incoherent femtosecond fluorescence from a solution of Nile Blue in dimethylaniline.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.76.4697

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We show that the coherence time and the pulse envelope of ultrashort fluorescence can be measured with two-photon interference. We have performed these measurements in a solution of Nile Blue in N,N-dimethylaniline in the femtosecond regime. The coherence time and the envelope contribute two components to a dip in the coincidence count rate. We have verified that these components can be measured separately at will. This technique provides the means to measure the pulse envelope of ultrashort pulses over a wide range of wavelengths and intensities.
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