Title :
Single-cycle optical pulses from coherently combined independent mode-locked lasers
Author :
Putnam, William P. ; Cox, Jonathan A. ; Sell, Alexander ; Leitenstorfer, Alfred ; Kärtner, Franz X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The repetition-rate and carrier-envelope offset of two independent mode-locked oscillators are locked. The resulting coherent optical pulse-train is compressed, and the pulse duration is measured to be 3.7 fs, about 1.1 cycles of the optical field.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; light coherence; carrier-envelope offset; coherent optical pulse-train; coherently combined independent mode-locked lasers; independent mode-locked oscillators; optical field; pulse duration; repetition-rate; single-cycle optical pulses; time 3.7 fs; Delay; Laser mode locking; Measurement by laser beam; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
