Ti:sapphire frequency comb with octave-spanning spectrum for spectroscopy and few-cycle pulse shaping

Author

Rausch, S. ; Binhammer, T. ; Harth, A. ; Siegel, M. ; Morgner, U.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Quantum Opt., Leibniz Universitdt Hannover, Hannover, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

A number of applications ranging from high-resolution frequency-comb spectroscopy, coherent control with shaped femtosecond pulses to novel carrier envelope offset (CEO) sensitive experiments rely on femtosecond laser sources which are stabilized with respect to the CEO-phase and repetition rate. This paper investigates on an octave-spanning Ti:sapphire laser system that reveals its CEO-phase without any additional spectral broadening, delivering stabilized pulses with a duration as short as 4.4 fs and usable output power of 90 mW. With a piezo-driven repetition rate stabilization a fully controlled self-referenced octave-spanning frequency comb with about 80 MHz mode spacing is realized.

Keywords

laser frequency stability; optical pulse shaping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al₂O₃:Ti; carrier envelope offset; few-cycle pulse shaping; frequency comb; laser system; mode spacing; octave-spanning spectrum; piezo-driven repetition rate stabilization; Frequency; Laser modes; Laser stability; Optical control; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Power lasers; Pulse shaping methods; Shape control; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192721

Filename

5192721