Title :
Signatures of sub-Poissonian noise in the carrier-envelope phase jitter of highly stabilized mode-locked lasers
Author :
Koke, Sebastian ; Borchers, Bastian ; Grebing, Christian ; Frei, Harald ; Anderson, Alexandria ; Assion, Andreas ; Steinmeyer, Günter
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate that the carrier-envelope-frequency noise of stabilized mode-locked lasers can be a up to a factor 30 below the noise that should arise already from shot noise-level fluctuations of its pump laser.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; laser noise; laser stability; shot noise; carrier-envelope phase jitter; carrier-envelope-frequency noise; mode-locked lasers; shot noise-level fluctuations; sub-Poissonian noise signatures; Frequency measurement; Laser excitation; Laser noise; Measurement by laser beam; Power measurement; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
