1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 2 Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Funds: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 10925421, 10734130), and National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Nos.2007CB815100 and 2007CB310406).
A new method based on a chirped optical pulse interferogram has been proposed to measure terahertz radiation. The frequency domain phase information of the interferogram is used to extract the time-domain terahertz pulse waveform. In principle, the resolution of our method can be as high as the unchirped probe pulse duration, with the advantages of relatively simple measurement setup and signal extracting techniques.