Long-term carrier-envelope phase stability from a grating-based, chirped pulse amplifier.
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.
Gagnon
Etienne
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Department of Physics and JILA, and NSF Engineering Research Center in EUV Science and Technology, University of Colorado and NIST, Boulder, 80309-0440, USA.
Thomann
Isabell
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Paul
Ariel
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Lytle
Amy L
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Backus
Sterling
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Murnane
Margaret M
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Kapteyn
Henry C
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Sandhu
Arvinder S
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