Sub-10 femtosecond stabilization of a fiber-link using a balanced optical cross-correlator

Author

Loehl, F. ; Schlarb, H. ; Mueller, Jost ; Kim, Jung-Won ; Chen, Jeff ; Wong, Franco ; Kaertner, Franz Xaver

Author_Institution

DESY, Hamburg

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

3804

Lastpage

3806

Abstract

A drift free synchronization distribution system with femtosecond accuracy is of great interest for free-electron-lasers such as FLASH or the European XFEL. Stability at that level can be reached by distributing laser pulses from a mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser over length-stabilized fiber-links. In this paper, we present a prototype of a fiber-link stabilization system based on balanced optical cross-correlation. The optical cross-correlation offers drift-free timing jitter detection. With this approach we were able to reduce the timing jitter added by a 400 m long fiber-link installed in a noisy accelerator environment to below 10 fs (rms).

Keywords

erbium; free electron lasers; laser mode locking; laser stability; optical fibre amplifiers; optical pulse generation; synchronisation; timing jitter; European XFEL; FLASH; JkJk:Er; distance 400 m; femtosecond stabilization; fiber link; free-electron-lasers; mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser; optical cross-correlator; synchronization distribution system; timing jitter detection; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Free electron lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser stability; Noise reduction; Optical pulses; Prototypes; Timing jitter; Ultrafast optics; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0916-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2007.4439912

Filename

4439912