Open AccessSynchronization of Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite mode-locked lasers with 100-attosecond precision by optical-phase stabilization
Author(s) -
Dai Yoshitomi,
Yohei Kobayashi,
Masayuki Kakehata,
Hideyuki Takada,
Kenji Torizuka
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.14.006359
Subject(s) - optics , carrier envelope phase , jitter , sapphire , attosecond , ti:sapphire laser , materials science , laser , phase (matter) , forsterite , envelope (radar) , mode locking , pulse duration , pulse (music) , physics , ultrashort pulse , detector , telecommunications , radar , chemistry , mineralogy , quantum mechanics , computer science
An optical-phase stabilization technique was utilized to reduce the timing jitter between passively synchronized Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite two-color mode-locked lasers. The suppression of cavity-length fluctuation by stabilizing pulse-to-pulse slips of relative carrier-envelope phase allowed timing-jitter reduction by a factor of 1.7, resulting in an rms value of 123 attoseconds (as) in a frequency range from 10 mHz to 1 MHz.