Self-referenced 200 MHz octave-spanning Ti:sapphire laser with 50 attosecond carrier-envelope phase jitter

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 5163-5169

  Mücke, Oliver D ^a   Ell, Richard ^a,b   Winter, Axel ^a,c   Kim, Jung Won ^a   Birge, Jonathan R ^a   Matos, Lia ^d   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Optical Coatings GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; JITTER; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEMETERS;

ANALOG MIXERS; PHASE DETECTORS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAFAST TECHNOLOGY;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 22744445288     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005163     Document Type: Article

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