Carrier-envelope phase control of femtosecond mode-locked lasers and direct optical frequency synthesis RID B-4974-2009

Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2000
Authors
Jones,D. J
Diddams,S. A
Ranka,J. K
Stentz,A.
Windeler,R. S
Hall,J. L
Cundiff,S. T
Name of Publication
Science
Volume
288
Pagination
635 - 639
Issue
5466
Date Published
2000/04/28/
ISBN Number
0036-8075
Keywords
generation, pulses
Abstract

We stabilized the carrier-envelope phase of the pulses emitted by a femtosecond mode-locked Laser by using the powerful tools of frequency-domain laser stabilization. We confirmed control of the pulse-to-pulse carrier-envelope phase using temporal cross correlation. This phase stabilization Locks the absolute frequencies emitted by the Laser, which we used to perform absolute optical frequency measurements that were directly referenced to a stable microwave clock.