Abstract:
A method and a system for scanning a time delay between pairs of a first ultrafast optical pulse of duration shorter than 10 ps and of a second ultrafast optical pulse of duration shorter than 10 ps, wherein said second ultrafast pulse is submitted to an acousto-optic Bragg diffraction by an acoustic pulse in the bulk of an acousto-optic material and the delay scanning is produced by time variation of said acoustic pulse in said material.