A novel scheme to eliminate the artificial background phase jitter is proposed for measuring the carrier-envelope phase drift of tunable infrared femtosecond pulses from an OPA laser. Different from previous methods, a reference spectral interference measurement is performed, which reveals the artificial phase jitter in the measurement process, in addition to the normal f-to-2f interference measurement between the incident laser pulses and it second harmonic. By analyzing the interference fringes, the accurate CEP fluctuation of the incident pulses is obtained.

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Chin. Phys. B

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IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

• A. Baltuška, M. Uiberacker, E. Goulielmakis, R. Kienberger, V. S. Yakovler, T. Udem, T. W. Hänsch, and F. Krausz, "Phase-Controlled Amplification of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 9, 972-989 (2003). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am.

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Nature

• A. Baltuška, T. Udem, M. Uiberacker, M. Hentschel, E. Goulielmakis, C. Gohle, R. Holzwarth, V. S. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, T. W. Hänsch, and F. Krausz, "Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields," Nature 421, 611-615 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

• Y. S. Lee, J. H. Sung, C. H. Nam, T. J. Yu, and K. H. Hong, "Novel method for carrier-envelope-phase stabilization of femtosecond laser pulses," Opt. Express 13, 2969-2976 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

• M. Kakehata, H. Takada, Y. Kobayashi, K. Torizuka, Y. Fujihara, T. Homma, and H. Takahashi, "Single-shot measurement of carrier-envelope phase changes by spectral interferometry," Opt. Lett. 26, 1436-1438 (2001). [CrossRef]
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Phys. Rev. A

• Z. Zeng, R. Li, W. Yu, and Z. Xu, "Effect of the carrier-envelope phase of the driving laser field on the high-order harmonic attosecond pulse," Phys. Rev. A 67, 013815 (2003). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

• Z. Zeng, Y. Cheng, X. Song, R. Li, and Z. Xu, "Generation of an Extreme Ultraviolet Supercontinuum in a Two-Color Laser Field," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203901 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Science

• J. Jones, A. Diddams, K. Ranka, A. Stentz, S. Windeler, L. Hall, and T. Cundiff, "Carrier-Envelope Phase Control of Femtosecond Mode-Locked Lasers and Direct Optical Frequency Synthesis," Science 288, 635-639 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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