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Carrier‐Envelope‐Offset Frequency Stable 100 W‐Level Femtosecond Thin‐Disk Oscillator
Author(s) -
Gröbmeyer Sebastian,
Brons Jonathan,
Seidel Marcus,
Pronin Oleg
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.201800256
Subject(s) - femtosecond , optics , materials science , frequency comb , phase noise , laser , frequency offset , envelope (radar) , optoelectronics , physics , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , radar , computer science , orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
In this paper, the carrier‐envelope‐offset (CEO) frequency stabilization of a Kerr‐lens mode‐locked femtosecond oscillator with average power 105 W is presented. Intra‐cavity Kerr lensing is realized in a quartz crystal that simultaneously serves as an acousto‐optic loss modulator. This novel method results in a CEO frequency stable laser with high average power and a residual in‐loop phase noise below 90 mrad. Furthermore, an all‐solid‐state bulk broadening stage is presented. The compressed, CEO frequency‐stabilized output has a peak power exceeding 67 MW at a pulse duration of 40 fs and a repetition rate of 15.6 MHz. The intra‐cavity peak power of the CEO frequency‐stabilized oscillator is around 200 MW. These results pave the way toward compact, transportable all‐solid‐state drivers with high repetition rates for deep UV and XUV frequency combs and other nonlinear processes.