Abstract
In this letter, we propose a method for measuring the pulsewidths at different spatial positions of ultrashort laser pulses. By measuring the pulsewidths varying with spatial positions of chirped and chirped-free femtosecond laser pulses, it is found that pulsewidths at edge positions are longer than that of central positions due to the effect of residual spatial chirp. Then, we measure the temporal evolutions of pulse at the strongest spatial modulation position after small-scale self-focusing and our results show that the pulsewidths become narrower with increasing spatial contrast due to spatiotemporal coupling effect. We find that the method is reliable and feasible.
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