Mid-infrared beam splitter for ultrashort pulses
C. Somma1, K. Reimann1, M. Woerner1, T. Kiel2, K. Busch1,2, A. Braun3, M. Matalla3, K. Ickert3, and O. Krüger3
Published in:
Opt. Lett., vol. 42, no. 15, pp. 2918-2921 (2017).
Abstract:
A design is presented for a beam splitter suitable for ultrashort pulses in the mid-infrared and terahertz spectral range consisting of a structured metal layer on a diamond substrate. Both the theory and experiment show that this beam splitter does not distort the temporal pulse shape.
1 Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
2 AG Theoretische Optik & Photonik, Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität, 12489 Berlin, Germany
3 Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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