Title :
Characterization of carrier-envelope phase noise from grating-based stretcher/compressors for chirped-pulse amplification
Author :
Thomann, Isabell ; Gagnon, Etienne ; Jones, R. Jason ; Sandhu, Arvnder S. ; Lytle, Amy ; Anderson, Ryan ; Murnane, Margaret ; Kapteyn, Henry
Author_Institution :
JILA, Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We investigate carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stability of femtosecond pulses propagating through a grating based stretcher/compressor (SC) (Thomann, E, et al., 2004), We do not find CEP noise intrinsic to the SC. Preliminary results on CEP stabilized amplified pulses are presented.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; high-speed optical techniques; laser beams; laser noise; laser stability; optical pulse compression; phase noise; carrier-envelope phase noise characterization; carrier-envelope phase stability; carrier-envelope phase stabilized amplified pulse; chirped-pulse amplification; femtosecond pulse propagation; grating-based stretcher-compressors; Chirp; Compressors; Fluctuations; Gratings; Noise measurement; Optical pulses; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Pulse amplifiers; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2005. (CLEO). Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-795-4
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2005.201983
