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In this Chapter, an introductive overview of the experimental methods to characterize an ultrashort laser pulse will be given. Great attention will be paid to the measurement of their time behaviour; this encompasses both the time profile and the pulse contrast. A formal introduction to the mathematical description of an ultrashort pulse in time will be preliminarily provided. Since reaching an ultrashort duration, in the range of \(30\,\mathrm {fs}\) or less, typically requires an active management of the pulse spectral phase, a particular care will be devoted to the discussion of diagnostics providing both the pulse amplitude and phase. Finally, a brief account will be made of diagnostic techniques to characterize the beam wavefront.
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Labate, L. (2019). Diagnostics of Ultrafast and Ultraintense Laser Pulses. In: Gizzi, L., Assmann, R., Koester, P., Giulietti, A. (eds) Laser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25850-4_11
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