title: Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option.
abstract: We demonstrate a chirped-pulse-amplified Ti:Sapphire laser system operating at 1 kHz, with 20 mJ pulse energy, 26 femtosecond pulse duration (0.77 terawatt), and excellent long term carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) stability. A new vibrational damping technique is implemented to significantly reduce vibrational noise on both the laser stretcher and compressor, thus enabling a single-shot CEP noise value of 250 mrad RMS over 1 hour and 300 mrad RMS over 9 hours. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the best long term CEP noise ever reported for any terawatt class laser. This laser is also used to pump a white-light-seeded optical parametric amplifier, producing 6 mJ of total energy in the signal and idler with 18 mJ of pumping energy. Due to preservation of the CEP in the white-light generated signal and passive CEP stability in the idler, this laser system promises synthesized laser pulses spanning multi-octaves of bandwidth at an unprecedented energy scale.
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Langdon
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garlick
authors.forename: Xiaoming
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authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Derrek J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Adam M
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authors.lastname: Summers
authors.forename: Stefan
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authors.lastname: Zigo
authors.forename: Matthias F
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authors.lastname: Kling
authors.forename: Shuting
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authors.lastname: Lei
authors.forename: Christopher G
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authors.lastname: Elles
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: Erwin D
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authors.lastname: Poliakoff
authors.forename: Kevin D
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authors.lastname: Carnes
authors.forename: Vinod
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authors.lastname: Kumarappan
authors.forename: Itzik
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authors.lastname: Ben-Itzhak
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Trallero-Herrero