Abstract
The intensity of the XeF C–A transition induced by a subpicosecond KrF laser is shown to have a cubic dependence on KrF laser intensity. The third-order autocorrelation technique for measuring the duration of a single KrF subpicosecond pulse has been developed utilizing this visible transition. A pulse width of 220 fsec was successfully measured with a high contrast of ~10. The visible fluorescence is more useful to researchers than vacuum-UV fluorescences. Furthermore, this simple technique may be applied over a wide UV wavelength region from 204 to 306 nm.
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