Title :
Optical clockwork without carrier-envelope phase control
Author :
Mucke, Oliver D. ; Kuzucu, Onur ; Wong, F.N.C. ; Ippen, E.P. ; Kaertner, F.X. ; Foreman, S.M. ; Jones, D.J. ; Ma, L.-S. ; Hall, J.L. ; Ye, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate optical clockwork without carrier-envelope phase control using sum-frequency generation between a cw optical parametric oscillator at 3.39 μm and a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with dominant spectral peaks at 834 nm and 670 nm.
Keywords :
atomic clocks; laser mode locking; optical frequency conversion; optical parametric oscillators; solid lasers; titanium; 3.39 mum; 834 to 670 nm; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; continuous-wave OPO; mode-locked laser; optical clockwork; optical parametric oscillator; sum-frequency generation; Atom optics; Clocks; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical variables control; Phase control; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363344
