Space-temporal analysis of ultra-short light pulse propagation in aberrated optical systems

Dobryna Zalvidea; Enrique E. Sicre

doi:10.1117/12.526870

19 November 2003 Space-temporal analysis of ultra-short light pulse propagation in aberrated optical systems

Dobryna Zalvidea, Enrique E. Sicre

Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526870
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

The field amplitude associated with ultra-short light pulses is analyzed using the phase-space formalism of the Wigner distribution function (WDF). By properly modifying the diffraction integral to take into account the dispersion effects (up to the second order), we derive a two-dimensional WDF associated with a reduced pupil function, from which the on-axis irradiance is obtained for varying time and defocus. The behavior of the optical system can be visualized as a three-dimensional irradiance display in a combined space-temporal domain. In order to illustrate this approach, we show some results for the case of an optical imaging system suffering from spherical aberration.

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Dobryna Zalvidea and Enrique E. Sicre "Space-temporal analysis of ultra-short light pulse propagation in aberrated optical systems", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.526870

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