Title :
Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurement With Linear Optical Sampling
Author :
Feitao Li ; Hui Hu ; Wei Zhao ; Yuanshan Liu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Transient Opt. & Photonics, Xi´an Inst. of Opt. & Precision Mech., Xi´an, China
Abstract :
In the few-cycle pulses, the temporal evolution of the electric field sensitively depends on the carrier-envelope phase (CEP). The ability to measure and stabilize the CEP therefore becomes a crucial issue for all applications. However, few studies are focused on the measurement of CEP with coherent linear optical sampling. We propose an efficient method to measure the CEP of the frequency comb pulses by employing a high-resolution linear optical sampling technique. It is shown that constant chirp and pulsewidth of frequency comb pulses have negligible effect on the CEP measurement.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; light coherence; optical pulse generation; sampling methods; CEP; carrier-envelope phase measurement; coherent linear optical sampling; few-cycle pulses; frequency comb pulses; high-resolution linear optical sampling technique; temporal evolution; Frequency measurement; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical variables measurement; Phase measurement; Phase shift keying; Carrier-envelop phase measurement; Fourier optics and signal processing; Optical sampling; optical sampling;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2420688