Single-shot pulse retrieval of femtosecond bright squeezed vacuum

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17746v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:09:00 GMT
• Title: Single-shot pulse retrieval of femtosecond bright squeezed vacuum
• Authors: Yuval Kern, Ido Nisim, Michael Birk, Andrei Rasputnyi, Doron Behar, Zhaopin Chen, Ido Kaminer, Pavel Sidorenko, Oren Cohen, Michael Krüger,
• Abstract summary: Bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) is an intense quantum state of light with zero mean electric field and huge photon number fluctuations.<n>Here, we retrieve the spectral and temporal pulse characteristics of a set of single-peak BSV shots.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) is an intense quantum state of light with zero mean electric field and huge photon number fluctuations, sufficiently intense to drive extreme nonlinear processes and imprint nonclassical statistics. However, the temporal structure of single BSV shots has not been fully characterized. Here, we retrieve the spectral and temporal pulse characteristics of a set of single-peak BSV shots. It is obtained by realizing a femtosecond BSV source at 1040 nm with a single spatial mode and perform single-shot spectral interferometry with a fully characterized coherent-state reference pulse. Our approach reveals that the group delay is consistent between the various shots, resulting in an average pulse duration of 27.2 fs, much shorter than the pump pulse, and a variation of 5.5 fs (standard deviation). We also observe a characteristic nodal structure in the spectral interferograms, demonstrating the BSV's random phase ambiguity of $\pi$ rad. Our approach demonstrates that BSV is a viable source of femtosecond light pulses for attosecond sub-cycle metrology of ultrafast electron dynamics.

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