Time multiplexing: a new single shot femtosecond pump-probe technique. Weinkauf, R., Lehr, L., Georgiev, D., & Schlag, E. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 64(5):515–519, May, 1997.
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We propose a new multiplex and fast readout technique for gaining a complete femtosecond pump-probe spectrum in a single shot which can be monitored on a conventional oscilloscope. The technique is based on counterpropagating fs laser pulses in gaseous samples of low density and probe detection by ion or fragment ion formation. Along the laser interaction path, each site in the sample corresponds to a particular pump-probe delay: The complete molecular response is multiplexed to a one dimensional spatial map of ion density. We propose a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the fast point-wise readout e.g. the demultiplexing of this ion map. By calculation and experiments we find that a linear demultiplexing is possible and that in a reflectron time-of-flight instrument a 100 fs pump-probe delay interval translates to an easily resolved time-of-flight spacing of 10 ns. The range of pump-probe delays that is estimated to be accommodated covers 100 fs up to 10 ps. The technique is combined with mass selection providing mass resolution of 100.
@article{weinkauf_time_1997,
	title = {Time multiplexing: a new single shot femtosecond pump-probe technique},
	volume = {64},
	issn = {0946-2171, 1432-0649},
	shorttitle = {Time multiplexing},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s003400050208},
	doi = {10.1007/s003400050208},
	abstract = {We propose a new multiplex and fast readout technique for gaining a complete femtosecond pump-probe spectrum in a single shot which can be monitored on a conventional oscilloscope. The technique is based on counterpropagating fs laser pulses in gaseous samples of low density and probe detection by ion or fragment ion formation. Along the laser interaction path, each site in the sample corresponds to a particular pump-probe delay: The complete molecular response is multiplexed to a one dimensional spatial map of ion density. We propose a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the fast point-wise readout e.g. the demultiplexing of this ion map. By calculation and experiments we find that a linear demultiplexing is possible and that in a reflectron time-of-flight instrument a 100 fs pump-probe delay interval translates to an easily resolved time-of-flight spacing of 10 ns. The range of pump-probe delays that is estimated to be accommodated covers 100 fs up to 10 ps. The technique is combined with mass selection providing mass resolution of 100.},
	language = {en},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2020-06-16},
	journal = {Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics},
	author = {Weinkauf, R. and Lehr, L. and Georgiev, D. and Schlag, E.W.},
	month = may,
	year = {1997},
	pages = {515--519},
}

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