@article{KanalKeiberEcketal.2014,
  author    = {Kanal, Florian and Keiber, Sabine and Eck, Reiner and Brixner, Tobias},
  title     = {100-kHz shot-to-shot broadband data acquisition for high-repetition-rate pump-probe spectroscopy},
  doi       = {10.1364/OE.22.016965},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112853},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Shot-to-shot broadband detection is common in ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy. Taking advantage of the intensity correlation of subsequent laser pulses improves the signal-to-noise ratio. Finite data readout times of CCD chips in the employed spectrometer and the maximum available speed of mechanical pump-beam choppers typically limit this approach to lasers with repetition rates of a few kHz. For high-repetition (≥ 100 kHz) systems, one typically averages over a larger number of laser shots leading to inferior signal-to-noise ratios or longer measurement times. Here we demonstrate broadband shot-to-shot detection in transient absorption spectroscopy with a 100-kHz femtosecond laser system. This is made possible using a home-built high-speed chopper with external laser synchronization and a fast CCD line camera. Shot-to-shot detection can reduce the data acquisition time by two orders of magnitude compared to few-kHz lasers while keeping the same signal-to-noise ratio.},
  language  = {en}
}