Precise and long-term stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of femtosecond laser pulses using an enhanced direct locking technique

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8203-8211

  Yu, Tae Jun ^a   Hong, Kyung Han ^a   Choi, Hyung Gyu ^a   Sung, Jae Hee ^a   Choi, Il Woo ^a   Ko, Do Kyeong ^a   Lee, Jongmin ^a   Kim, Junwon ^b   Kim, Dong Eon ^b   Nam, Chang Hee ^c  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; JITTER; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE NOISE; PRISMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STABILIZATION;

CARRIER-ENVELOPE-PHASE (CEP); DIRECT LOCKING TECHNIQUE; HOMODYNE BALANCED DETECTION METHOD; OFFSET FREQUENCY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34250811327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008203     Document Type: Article

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