Generation of 1.5 cycle pulses at 780 nm at oscillator repetition rates with stable carrier-envelope phase

Dienstbier P, Tani F, Higuchi T, Travers JC, Russell PSJ, Hommelhoff P (2019)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Letter

Publication year: 2019

Journal

Optics Express Optical Society of America

Book Volume: 27

Pages Range: 24105 - 24113

Journal Issue: 17

URI: https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-27-17-24105

DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.024105

Open Access Link: https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-27-17-24105

Abstract

We demonstrate a spectral broadening and compression setup for carrier-envelopephase (CEP) stable sub-10-fs Ti:sapphire oscillator pulses resulting in 3.9 fs pulses spectrallycentered at 780 nm. Pulses from the oscillator with 2 nJ energy are launched into a 1 mm longall-normal dispersive solid-core photonic crystal fiber and spectrally broadened to more than oneoctave. Subsequent pulse compression is achieved with a phase-only 4f pulse shaper. Secondharmonic frequency resolved optical gating with a ptychographic reconstruction algorithm isused to obtain the spectral phase, which is fed back as a phase mask to the shaper display forpulse compression. The compressed pulses are CEP stable with a long term standard deviationof 0.23 rad for the CEP noise and 0.32 rad for the integrated rms phase jitter. The high totalthroughput of 15% results in a remaining pulse energy of about 300 pJ at 80 MHz repetition rate.With these parameters and the ability to tailor the spectral phase, the system is well suited forwaveform sensitive photoemission experiments with needle tips or nanostructures and can beeasily adapted to other sub-10 fs ultra-broadband Ti:sapphire oscillators.

Authors with CRIS profile

Philip Dienstbier Lehrstuhl für Laserphysik Takuya Higuchi Lehrstuhl für Laserphysik Peter Hommelhoff Lehrstuhl für Laserphysik

Involved external institutions

Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (MPL) / Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Dienstbier, P., Tani, F., Higuchi, T., Travers, J.C., Russell, P.S.J., & Hommelhoff, P. (2019). Generation of 1.5 cycle pulses at 780 nm at oscillator repetition rates with stable carrier-envelope phase. Optics Express, 27(17), 24105 - 24113. https://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.024105

MLA:

Dienstbier, Philip, et al. "Generation of 1.5 cycle pulses at 780 nm at oscillator repetition rates with stable carrier-envelope phase." Optics Express 27.17 (2019): 24105 - 24113.

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