Retrieval of satellite pulses of single isolated attosecond pulses

When isolated attosecond pulses are reconstructed from an ideal streaked photoelectron spectrogram, the relative amplitude of accompanying satellite pulses can be identified from their interference. However, the interference pattern in the spectrogram can be smeared by variation of the streaking laser intensity in the focal volume and by interpolation when using large delay steps acquiring the spectrogram, making accurate measurement of the relative intensity of the satellite pulses difficult. We investigate these effects on the reconstruction of satellite pulses with full- and half-cycle separations. Our simulations show that satellite pulses with full-cycle separation are largely unaffected by these issues.