Carrier-envelope offset phase control: A novel concept for absolute optical frequency measurement and ultrashort pulse generation

HR Telle, G Steinmeyer, AE Dunlop, J Stenger… - Applied Physics B, 1999 - Springer
The shortest pulses periodically emitted directly from a mode-locked Ti: sapphire laser are
approaching the two-optical-cycle range. In this region, the phase of the optical carrier with …

Phase stabilization of ultrashort optical pulses

ST Cundiff - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
New methods have recently been developed to measure the carrier-envelope phase
evolution of ultrashort optical pulses. These methods utilize a powerful combination of time …

Optical frequency combs: from frequency metrology to optical phase control

J Ye, H Schnatz, LW Hollberg - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The merging of continuous wave laser-based precision optical-frequency metrology with
mode-locked ultrafast lasers has led to precision control of the visible and near-infrared …

Carrier–envelope-offset dynamics and stabilization of femtosecond pulses

FW Helbing, G Steinmeyer, J Stenger, HR Telle… - Applied Physics B, 2002 - Springer
We analyze and stabilize fluctuations of the relative phase between the carrier and the
envelope of a mode-locked laser. Mechanisms generating fluctuations of the carrier …

Colloquium: Femtosecond optical frequency combs

ST Cundiff, J Ye - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2003 - APS
Recently there has been a remarkable synergy between the technologies of precision laser
stabilization and mode-locked ultrafast lasers. This has resulted in control of the frequency …

Direct frequency comb synthesis with arbitrary offset and shot-noise-limited phase noise

S Koke, C Grebing, H Frei, A Anderson, A Assion… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Carrier-envelope phase stabilization, has opened an avenue towards achieving frequency
metrology with unprecedented precision, and optical pulse generation on the previously …

Controlled waveforms on the single-cycle scale from a femtosecond oscillator

S Rausch, T Binhammer, A Harth, J Kim, R Ell… - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We present an octave-spanning Ti: sapphire oscillator supporting Fourier-limited pulses as
short as 3.7 fs. This laser system can be directly CEO-phase stabilized delivering an …

Mode-locked laser pulse trains with subfemtosecond timing jitter synchronized to an optical reference oscillator

A Bartels, SA Diddams, TM Ramond, L Hollberg - Optics letters, 2003 - opg.optica.org
We independently phase lock the repetition rates of two femtosecond lasers at their≈
456,000 th harmonic to a common optical oscillator. The timing jitter of each individual laser …

Precision phase control of an ultrawide-bandwidth femtosecond laser: a network of ultrastable frequency marks across the visible spectrum

J Ye, JL Hall, SA Diddams - Optics letters, 2000 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that the stability of the current optical frequency comb generated by a Kerr-
lens mode-locked femtosecond laser is limited by the microwave reference used for phase …

Frequency metrology with a turnkey all-fiber system

TR Schibli, K Minoshima, FL Hong, H Inaba, A Onae… - Optics letters, 2004 - opg.optica.org
The repetition rate and carrier-envelope phase offset frequencies of a turnkey, all-fiber-
based continuum generator were phase locked to a hydrogen maser. The frequency of the …