Monolithic carrier-envelope phase-stabilization scheme

A new scheme for stabilizing the carrier-envelope (CE) phase of a few-cycle laser pulse train is demonstrated. Self-phase modulation and difference-frequency generation in a single periodically poled lithium niobate crystal that transmits the main laser beam allows CE phase locking directly in the u...

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Published in:Optics letters 2005-02, Vol.30 (3), p.332-334
Main Authors: FUJI, Takao, RAUSCHENBERGER, Jens, KRAUSZ, Ferenc, APOLONSKI, Alexander, YAKOVLEV, Vladislav S, TEMPEA, Gabriel, UDEM, Thomas, GOHLE, Christoph, HÄNSCH, Theodor W, LEHNERT, Walter, SCHERER, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications)
Laser optical systems: design and operation
Optics
Physics
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Summary:A new scheme for stabilizing the carrier-envelope (CE) phase of a few-cycle laser pulse train is demonstrated. Self-phase modulation and difference-frequency generation in a single periodically poled lithium niobate crystal that transmits the main laser beam allows CE phase locking directly in the usable output. The monolithic scheme obviates the need for splitting off a fraction of the laser output for CE phase control, coupling into microstructured fiber, and separation and recombination of spectral components. As a consequence, the output yields 6-fs, 800-nm pulses with an unprecedented degree of short- and long-term reproducibility of the electric field waveform.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/ol.30.000332