Locking the carrier-envelope-offset frequency of an optical parametric oscillator without f-2f self-referencing

Teresa I Ferreiro; Jinghua Sun; Derryck Telford Reid

doi:10.1364/OL.35.001668

Locking the carrier-envelope-offset frequency of an optical parametric oscillator without f-2f self-referencing

Teresa I Ferreiro, Jinghua Sun, Derryck Telford Reid

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Abstract

The carrier-envelope-offset (CEO) frequency of pulses from a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) was stabilized for 30 min without the need for f-2f self-referencing in either the OPO or its pump laser. Interference between the high-frequency modes of the pump supercontinuum and the modes of the non-phase-matched pump+signal sum-frequency-mixing pulses provided the beat signal used for locking. The -3 dB bandwidth of the locked CEO-frequency was measured as 1.1 kHz, and the cumulative phase error recorded over 1 s was 0.38 rad, representing 1-order-of-magnitude improvement in comparison to previous results. © 2010 Optical Society of America.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1668-1670
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	35
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.001668
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2010

Keywords

PHASE-CONTROL
LASER
COMB
SPECTROSCOPY
DYNAMICS
NOISE

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Locking the carrier-envelope-offset frequency of an optical parametric oscillator without f-2f self-referencing

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