OSA's Digital Library

Optics Express

Optics Express

  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 16, Iss. 22 — Oct. 27, 2008
  • pp: 17410–17419

Optics InfoBase > Optics Express > Volume 16 > Issue 22 > Page 17410

Few-cycle femtosecond field synthesizer

Stefan Rausch, Thomas Binhammer, Anne Harth, Franz X. Krtner, and Uwe Morgner  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 22, pp. 17410-17419 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.017410


View Full Text Article

Enhanced HTML    Acrobat PDF (221 KB)


Advanced Search

Browse Journals / Lookup Meetings

Browse by Journal and Year


   


Lookup Conference Papers

Close Browse Journals / Lookup Meetings

Article Tools

Share
Citations

Abstract

We report on an optical field synthesizer consisting of a CEO-phase stabilized octave-spanning Ti:sapphire laser oscillator, a double-LCD prism-based pulse shaper, and a SPIDER pulse characterization apparatus. This field synthesizer allows for generating pulses with durations as short as 3.6 fs and enables to control the electric field on a sub-cycle scale. Within the limits of the ultrabroad spectrum arbitrary spectral and temporal pulse shapes and pulse sequences can be realized. Together with the ability to stabilize the pulses with respect to their CEO-phase, this system forms a versatile tool for coherent control experiments of field sensitive processes and precision spectroscopy.

© 2008 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(320.5540) Ultrafast optics : Pulse shaping
(320.7090) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast lasers

ToC Category:
Ultrafast Optics

History
Original Manuscript: August 27, 2008
Revised Manuscript: October 10, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: October 12, 2008
Published: October 15, 2008

Citation
Stefan Rausch, Thomas Binhammer, Anne Harth, Franz X. Krtner, and Uwe Morgner, "Few-cycle femtosecond field synthesizer," Opt. Express 16, 17410-17419 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-22-17410


Sort:  Author  |  Year  |  Journal  |  Reset  

References

  1. F. X. Kärtner, E. P. Ippen, and S. T. Cundiff, "Femtosecond Laser Development," in Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb: Principle, Operation, and Applications, J. Ye and S. T. Cundiff, eds. (Springer Science and Business Media, Inc., 2005), pp. 54-77. [CrossRef]
  2. O. Mücke, R. Ell, A. Winter, J-W. Kim, J. Birge, L. Matos, and F. X. Kärtner, "Self-Referenced 200 MHz Octave-Spanning Ti:Sapphire Laser with 50 Attosecond Carrier-Envelope Phase Jitter," Opt. Express 13, 5163-5169 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  3. A. Bartels, R. Gebs, M. S. Kirchner, and S. A. Diddams, "Spectrally resolved optical frequency comb from a self-referenced 5 GHz femtosecond laser," Opt. Lett. 32, 2553-2555 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  4. H. M. Crespo, J. R. Birge, E. L. Falcão-Filho, M. Y. Sander, A. Benedick, and F. X. Kärtner, "Nonintrusive phase stabilization of sub-two-cycle pulses from a prismless octave-spanning Ti:sapphire laser," Opt. Lett. 33, 833-835 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  5. S. Rausch, T. Binhammer, A. Harth, J. W. Kim, R. Ell, F. X. Kärtner, and U. Morgner, "Controlled waveforms on the single-cycle scale from a femtosecond oscillator," Opt. Express 16, 9739-9745 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  6. A. Apolonski, P. Dombi, G. G. Paulus, M. Kakehata, R. Holzwarth, Th. Udem, Ch. Lemell, K. Torizuka, J. Burgdörfer, T. W. Hänsch, and F. Krausz, "Observation of Light-Phase-Sensitive Photoemission from a Metal," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 073902 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  7. O. D. Mücke, T. Tritschler, M. Wegener, U. Morgner, F. X. Kärtner, G. Khitrova, and H. M. Gibbs, "Carrier-wave Rabi flopping: role of the carrier-envelope phase," Opt. Lett. 29, 2160-2162 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  8. C. Jirauschek, L. Duan, O. D. Mücke, F. X. Kärtner, M. Wegener, and U. Morgner, "Carrier-envelope phasesensitive inversion in two-level systems," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22, 2065-2075 (2005). [CrossRef]
  9. T. Nakajima and S. Watanabe, "Effects of the Carrier-Envelope Phase in the Multiphoton Ionization Regime," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 213001 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  10. T. Udem, R. Holzwarth, and T. W. Hnsch, "Optical frequency metrology," Nature 416, 233-237 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  11. T. M. Fortier, Y. Le Coq, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Ortega, S. A. Diddams, C. W. Oates, and L. Hollberg, "Kilohertz-Resolution Spectroscopy of Cold Atoms with an Optical Frequency Comb," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163905 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  12. M. C. Stowe, F. C. Cruz, A. Marian, and J. Ye, "High Resolution Atomic Coherent Control via Spectral Phase Manipulation of an Optical Frequency Comb," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163905 (2006).
  13. N. Dudovich, D. Oron, and Y. Silberberg, "Single-pulse coherently controlled nonlinear Raman spectroscopy and microscopy," Nature 418, 512-514 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  14. B. von Vacano and M. Motzkus, "Time-resolved two color single-beam CARS employing supercontinuum and femtosecond pulse shaping," Opt. Commun. 264, 488-493 (2006). [CrossRef]
  15. S. Postma, A. C.W. van Rhijn, J. P. Korterik, P. Gross, J. L. Herek, and H. L. Offerhaus, "Application of spectral phase shaping to high resolution CARS spectroscopy," Opt. Express 16, 7985-7996 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  16. G. Vogt, P. Nürnberger, R. Selle, F. Dimler, T. Brixner, and G. Gerber, "Analysis of femtosecond quantum control mechanisms with colored double pulses," Phys. Rev. A 74, 033413 (2006). [CrossRef]
  17. T. Binhammer, E. Rittweger, R. Ell, F. X. Kärtner, and U. Morgner, "Spectral Phase Control and Temporal Superresolution towards Single-Cycle Pulses," Opt. Lett. 31, 1552-1554 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  18. F. X. K¨artner, U. Morgner, R. Ell, T. Schibli, J. G. Fujimoto, E. P. Ippen, V. Scheuer, G. Angelow, and T. Tschudi, "Ultrabroadband double-chirped mirror pairs for generation of octave spectra," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, 882-885 (2001). [CrossRef]
  19. T. R. Schibli, O. Kuzucu, J. W. Kim, E. P. Ippen, J. G. Fujimoto, F. X. Kärtner, V. Scheuer, and G. Angelow, "Towards Single-Cycle Laser Systems," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 990-1001 (2003). [CrossRef]
  20. L. Gallmann, D. H. Sutter, N. Matuschek, G. Steinmeyer, U. Keller, C. Iaconis, and I. A. Walmsley, "Characterization of sub-6-fs optical pulses with spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction," Opt. Lett. 24, 1314-1316 (1999). [CrossRef]
  21. H. R. Telle, G. Steinmeyer, A. E. Dunlop, J. Stenger, D. H. Sutter, and U. Keller, "Carrier-envelope offset phase control: A novel concept for absolute optical frequency measurement and ultrashort pulse generation," Appl. Phys. B 69, 327-332 (1999). [CrossRef]
  22. L. Matos, D. Kleppner, O. Kuzucu, T. R. Schibli, J. Kim, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kärtner, "Direct frequency comb generation from an octave-spanning, prismless Ti:sapphire laser," Opt. Lett. 29, 1683-1685 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  23. Jenoptik Germany, "SLM-S640d Technical Documentation," Jenoptik LOS, 2006.
  24. A. M. Weiner, "Femtosecond pulse shaping using spatial light modulators," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 71, (2000). [CrossRef]
  25. T. Fuji, N. Ishii, C. Y. Teisset, X. Gu, Th. Metzger, A. Baltuska, N. Forget, D. Kaplan, A. Galvanauskas, and F. Krausz, "Parametric amplification of few-cycle carrier-envelope phase-stable pulses at 2.1 m," Opt. Lett. 31, 1103-1105 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  26. S. Adachi, H. Ishii, T. Kanai, N. Ishii, A. Kosuge, and S. Watanabe, "1.5 mJ, 6.4 fs parametric chirped-pulse amplification system at 1 kHz," Opt. Lett. 32, 2487-2489 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  27. T. Binhammer, E. Rittweger, R. Ell, F. X. Kärtner, and U. Morgner, "Prism-based pulse shaper for octave spanning spectra," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 41, 1552-1557 (2005). [CrossRef]
  28. D. J. Tannor, R. Kosloff, and S. A. Rice, "Coherent pulse sequence induced control of selectivity of reactions: exact quantum mechanical calculations," J. Chem. Phys. 85, 5805 (1986). [CrossRef]
  29. T.-S. Yang, M.-S. Chang, R. Chang, M. Hayashi, S. H. Lin, P. Vöhringer, W. Dietz, and N. F. Scherer, "Femtosecond pump-probe study of molecular vibronic structures and dynamics of cyanine dye in solution," J. Chem. Phys. 110, 12070-12081 (1999). [CrossRef]

Cited By

 Alert me when this paper is cited

OSA is able to provide readers links to articles that cite this paper by participating in CrossRef's Cited-By Linking service. CrossRef includes content from more than 3000 publishers and societies. In addition to listing OSA journal articles that cite this paper, citing articles from other participating publishers will also be listed.


« Previous Article  |  Next Article »

OSA is a member of CrossRef.

CrossCheck Deposited