title: Carrier envelope phase noise in stabilized amplifier systems.
abstract: At present most laser systems for generating phase-stabilized high-energy pulses are chirped pulse amplifier systems that involve the selection and subsequent amplification of pulses from a phase-stabilized seed oscillator. We investigate the effect of the picking process on the carrier envelope phase stability and how the phase noise of the picked pulse sequence can be estimated from the phase noise properties of the seed oscillator. All noise components from the original pulse train above the picking frequency are aliased into the picked pulse train and therefore cannot be neglected.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany. ctg@mpq.mpg.de
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gohle
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rauschenberger
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fuji
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Udem
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Apolonski
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krausz
authors.forename: Theodor W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hänsch