title: Long-term carrier-envelope phase stability from a grating-based, chirped pulse amplifier.
abstract: We demonstrate a carrier-envelope phase (CEP) stabilized, chirped pulse laser amplifier that exhibits greatly improved intrinsic long-term CEP stability compared with that of other amplifiers. This system employs a grating-based stretcher and compressor and a cryogenically cooled laser amplifier. Single-shot carrier envelope phase noise measurements are also presented that avoid underestimation of this parameter caused by fringe averaging and represent a rigorously accurate upper limit on CEP noise.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and JILA, and NSF Engineering Research Center in EUV Science and Technology, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, 80309-0440, USA.
authors.forename: Etienne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gagnon
authors.forename: Isabell
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Thomann
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: Amy L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Lytle
authors.forename: Sterling
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Backus
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Murnane
authors.forename: Henry C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Kapteyn
authors.forename: Arvinder S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Sandhu