Figure 5

(a) Measured SSI interferogram when the quartz plate and the quarter-waveplate were set to θz = 0 and θp = −45°, respectively. Also shown are the measured SSI interferograms when only the (b) vertically and (c) horizontally polarized reference pulse was introduced. (d) Temporal evolution of the polarization state of the pulse reconstructed from the amplitude and phase of the field components shown in the (e) spectral and (f) temporal domain. (g) Temporal evolution of the retrieved polarization ellipse parameters that describe the temporal polarization state shown in (d).