• DocumentCode
    3010078
  • Title

    Nearly Three-Octave-Spanning Frequency Comb from a Phase-Controlled Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser and Synchronously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator

  • Author

    Sun, J.H. ; Gale, B.J.S. ; Reid, D.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A repetition-rate-stabilized frequency comb ranging from the violet to the mid-infrared is obtained by phase-locking a femtosecond Ti: sapphire laser and synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator to a common supercontinuum reference.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; optical parametric oscillators; sapphire; solid lasers; supercontinuum generation; titanium; Al2O3:Ti; laser phase-locking; phase-controlled femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser; repetition-rate-stabilized frequency comb; supercontinuum; synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator; three-octave-spanning frequency comb; Frequency synthesizers; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical variables control; Oscillators; Phase frequency detector; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452891
  • Filename
    4452891