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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:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [3];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3]
  1. Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Boulder, CO (United States); Crunch Technologies, Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, Boulder, CO (United States)
  3. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (United States)
  4. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (United States); Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany)
  5. Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  6. Augustana College, Sioux Fall, SD (United States)
  7. Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge LA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1188316
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-86ER13491
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Langdon, Benjamin, Garlick, Jonathan, Ren, Xiaoming, Wilson, Derrek J., Summers, Adam M., Zigo, Stefan, Kling, Matthias F., Lei, Shuting, Elles, Christopher G., Wells, Eric, Poliakoff, Erwin D., Carnes, Kevin D., Kumarappan, Vinod, Ben-Itzhak, Itzik, and Trallero-Herrero, Carlos A.. Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.23.004563.
Langdon, Benjamin, Garlick, Jonathan, Ren, Xiaoming, Wilson, Derrek J., Summers, Adam M., Zigo, Stefan, Kling, Matthias F., Lei, Shuting, Elles, Christopher G., Wells, Eric, Poliakoff, Erwin D., Carnes, Kevin D., Kumarappan, Vinod, Ben-Itzhak, Itzik, & Trallero-Herrero, Carlos A.. Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.004563
Langdon, Benjamin, Garlick, Jonathan, Ren, Xiaoming, Wilson, Derrek J., Summers, Adam M., Zigo, Stefan, Kling, Matthias F., Lei, Shuting, Elles, Christopher G., Wells, Eric, Poliakoff, Erwin D., Carnes, Kevin D., Kumarappan, Vinod, Ben-Itzhak, Itzik, and Trallero-Herrero, Carlos A.. Thu . "Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.004563. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1188316.
@article{osti_1188316,
title = {Carrier-envelope-phase stabilized terawatt class laser at 1 kHz with a wavelength tunable option},
author = {Langdon, Benjamin and Garlick, Jonathan and Ren, Xiaoming and Wilson, Derrek J. and Summers, Adam M. and Zigo, Stefan and Kling, Matthias F. and Lei, Shuting and Elles, Christopher G. and Wells, Eric and Poliakoff, Erwin D. and Carnes, Kevin D. and Kumarappan, Vinod and Ben-Itzhak, Itzik and Trallero-Herrero, Carlos A.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.23.004563},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 4,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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