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A fully stabilized low-phase-noise Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser frequency comb with an average power of 1.5 W.
- Source :
- Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics; Aug2020, Vol. 126 Issue 8, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We report a fully stabilized self-referenced all-solid-state-laser frequency comb based on a home-built Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CaYAlO<subscript>4</subscript> oscillator, which delivers ultrafast pulses with a pulse duration of 54 fs and an average power of 1.5 W. Free running carrier-envelope phase offset frequency (f<subscript>ceo</subscript>) is observed with a signal to noise ratio of 40 dB at 100 kHz resolution bandwidth, which is phase-locked to a microwave frequency synthesizer with a residual phase jitter of 370 mrad [1 Hz–1 MHz] and with a standard frequency deviation of 0.8 mHz at 1-s gate time within 3-h, corresponding to the relative frequency instability of 2.9 × 10<superscript>−18</superscript> at 1-s average time. It is the lowest phase noise and the highest frequency stability of f<subscript>ceo</subscript> obtained in a watt-level all-solid-state bulk laser frequency comb to the best of our knowledge. A 13th repetition rate is simultaneously phase-locked to the same microwave standard with a frequency instability level of 10<superscript>−12</superscript> at 1 s average time. Such fully stabilized power scaling Yb: CaYAlO<subscript>4</subscript> laser frequency combs have great potential for applications in broadband dual comb spectroscopy as well as high loss cases such as long-distance time and frequency transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09462171
- Volume :
- 126
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 145260295
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-020-07485-6