Spectrally resolved optical frequency comb from a self-referenced 5 GHz femtosecond laser

Author

Bartels, A. ; Gebs, R. ; Kirchner, M.S. ; Diddams, Scott A.

Author_Institution

Gigaoptics GmbH, Konstanz

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper, a self-referenced Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser frequency combs (FLFC) with 5 GHz repetition rate and 230 pJ of pulse energy is reported. The individual modes of the 5 GHz FLFC are dispersed and recorded in a 2D image using a high-resolution spectrometer. This experiment is an important milestone within ongoing efforts to investigate applications in spectroscopy and arbitrary waveform generation with well-stabilized mode-locked femtosecond lasers.

Keywords

laser mode locking; laser modes; measurement by laser beam; optical pulse generation; spectroscopic light sources; Ti:sapphire laser; energy 230 pJ; femtosecond laser frequency combs; frequency 5 GHz; laser mode locking; modal dispersion; self-referenced femtosecond laser; Bandwidth; Charge coupled devices; Frequency; Microwave generation; Mirrors; Optical pulses; Optical recording; Power generation; Spectroscopy; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0930-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4387062

Filename

4387062