{"id":3250,"date":"2013-09-05T13:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2013-10-04T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:08:18","slug":"autocorrelator-for-under-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/autocorrelator-for-under-5k\/","title":{"rendered":"Autocorrelator for under $5k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/delta.png\" alt=\"delta\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/delta.png 600w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/delta-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Autocorrelators can be used to measure the pulse width of ultrafast lasers. This can be useful for troubleshooting dispersion in your 2-photon imaging system and generally troubleshooting laser issues. They are big ticket items and often cost over $15k <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newport.com\/pulsescout-autocorrelator\/549099\/1033\/info.aspx#tab_orderinfo\">(e.g.)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minioptic sells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minioptic.com\/autocorrelators\/\">one for under $5k<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just run your beam into it and plug the output into your oscilloscope (at least 1 MHz bandwidth).<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to T.V.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Autocorrelators can be used to measure the pulse width of ultrafast lasers. This can be useful for troubleshooting dispersion in your 2-photon imaging system and generally troubleshooting laser issues. They are big ticket items and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/autocorrelator-for-under-5k\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,32,15],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-equipment","tag-laser","tag-optics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}