Title :
Reducing the fast carrier-envelope phase jitter of amplified femtosecond laser pulses
Author :
Moon, E. ; Li, Chengquan ; Duan, Zuoliang ; Tackett, J. ; Corwin, K.L. ; Washburn, B.R. ; Chang, Zenghu
Author_Institution :
J.R. MacDonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 66506, USA
Abstract :
Stabilizing the interference signal obtained from co-propagating a HeNe beam in the f-to-2f interferometer used for carrier-envelope phase stabilization of a femtosecond laser oscillator reduced the fast phase jitter of the amplified pulses by ¿40%.
Keywords :
Jitter; Laser noise; Laser stability; Laser theory; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431074