Towards versatile coherent pulse synthesis using femtosecond laser and optical parametric oscillators

B. J S Gale, J. H. Sun, D. T. Reid

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Abstract

Pulses from a tunable near-infrared femtosecond optical parametric oscillator and its Ti:sapphire pump laser were phase-locked by matching their carrier-envelope phase-slip frequencies to one quarter of their common pulse repetition frequency. Interferometric second-order cross-correlation and spectral interferometry traces demonstrated their mutual coherence for periods of at least 20 ms, compared with individual coherence times of 0.1 ms estimated from their phase-noise power spectra. This result is a prerequisite for versatile coherent pulse synthesis. Implications for the synthesis of arbitrary waveforms from multi-colour pulses are discussed. © 2008 Optical Society of America.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1616-1622
Number of pages7
JournalOptics Express
Volume16
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Feb 2008

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