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A new ultrastable cesium optical atomic clock with a 9.1926-GHz regeneratively mode-locked fiber laser

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA1
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• Yakabe, Masatsugu; Nito, Ko; Yoshida, Masato; Nakazawa, Masataka; Koga, Yasuki; Hagimoto, Ken; Ikegami, Takeshi
• A new Cs atomic clock is demonstrated by using a mode-locked fiber laser. Frequency stabilities of 4.8×10-12 for τ=1 s and 6.3×10-13 for τ=50 s are obtained when using a 1-m long Cs...

Frequency transfer of optical standards through fiber network using 1550-nm mode-locked sources

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA2
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• Holman, Kevin; Jones, David; Jones, R Jason; Ye, Jun
• A 1550-nm mode-locked laser source phase locked to an optical atomic clock was used to transfer precise optical/radio frequency signals over a fiber network with ultrahigh stability.

Femtosecond laser frequency combs with 1-Hz-level linewidths

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA3
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• Bartels, Albrecht O; Diddams, Scott A; Oates, Chris W; Bergquist, Jim C; Hollberg, Leo
• The relative linewidth between two stabilized femtosecond laser frequency combs can be as low as 23 mHz. An upper limit of ∫4 Hz on the absolute linewidth of the individual frequency...

Frequency metrology with a turnkey all-fiber system

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA4
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• Schibli, Thomas R; Minoshima, Kaoru; Hong, Feng-Lei; Inaba, Hajime; Onae, Atsushi; Matsumoto, Hirokazu; Hartl, Ingmar; Fermann, Martin E
• The repetition-rate and carrier envelope offset frequency of a turnkey, all-fiber-based continuum generator are phase-locked to a highly-stable atomic clock, H-maser. The performance...

Femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers with uncertainty at the 10^{-19} level

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA5
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• Ma, Long Sheng; Robertsson, Lennart; Zucco, Massimo; Bi, Zhiyi; Windeler, Robert; Bartels, Albrecht; Wilpers, Guido; Oates, Chris; Hollberg, Leo; Diddams, Scott A
• We verify the accuracy of femtosecond laser optical frequency synthesizers that employ microstructure fibers with those that directly generate a broadband output. No limitation of...

Coherent amplification of femtosecond pulses with passive enhancement cavities

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA6
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• Jones, R Jason; Ma, Long-Sheng; Ye, Jun
• We demonstrate a general technique for amplification of femtosecond pulses through coherent buildup in an external cavity. Intracavity pulse enhancement >110 times is demonstrated...

Generation of ultra-broadband high energy pulses without external amplification

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA7
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• Fuerbach, Alexander; Fernandez, Alma; Fuji, Takao; Mayer, Harald; Dombi, Peter; Krausz, Ferenc; Apolonski, Alexander
• We report on the generation of ultra-broadband radiation from a Chirped-pulse oscillator. By spectral broadening in a single-mode fibre, output spectra corresponding to a...

Subpicosecond spatiotemporal pulse compression in a nonlinear defocusing material

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FA8
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• Nielsen, Nils C; Höner zu Siederdissen, Tilman; Kuhl, Jürgen; Schaarschmidt, Martin; Förstner, Jens; Knorr, Andreas; Koch, Stephan W; Giessen, Harald
• We demonstrate temporal and spatial pulse compression and modulational instabilities in the nonlinear defocusing regime near the band edge of bulk GaAs. Experiment and theory show that...

Imaging of localized silver plasmon dynamics with sub-fs time and nano-meter spatial resolution

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FB1
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• Kubo, Atsushi; Onda, Ken; Petek, Hrvoje; Sun, Zhijun; Jung, Yun S; Kim, Hong K
• Images of local plasmons on a silver grating excited by 400-nm fs pulses are obtained with 0.3-fs time and 50-nm spatial resolution. The technique is based on interferometric...

Ultrafast dynamics of light transmission through plasmonic crystals

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FB2
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• Lienau, Christoph; Ropers, Claus; Müller, Roland; Stibenz, Gero; Steinmeyer, Günter; Park, Doo-Jae; Yoon, Yeo-Chan; Kim, Dai-Sik
• We study experimentally the ultrafast dynamics of light transmission through plasmonic 2D- and 1D-nanocrystals. Two interfering transmission channels are identified: ultrafast...

Excitation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on metallic periodic structures

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FB3
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• Torosyan, Garik; Rau, Christian; Pradarutti, Boris; Beigang, René
• Surface plasmon polaritons are excited on a periodic structure of metallic cylinders with ultrashort THz pulses. Propagation and damping of the surface plasmons as well as reemitted...

Temporal spectroscopic behavior of terahertz pulses transmitted through metal hole arrays

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FB4
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• Miyamaru, Fumiaki; Hangyo, Masanori
• Temporal spectroscopic behaviors of the terahertz single pulse, which transmitted through the metal hole array, has been investigated using the short-time Fourier-transform, and...

Surface-plasmon-polariton enhanced tunneling of THz radiation through arrays of sub-wavelength apertures

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: FB5
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• Gómez Rivas, Jaime; Janke, Christoph; Haring Bolivar, Peter; Kurz, Heinrich
• Terahertz transmission through periodic arrays of sub-wavelength apertures made from highly doped silicon is analyzed. Sharp resonances with enhanced transmission (up to 70% of the...

Generation of a single-cycle optical pulse

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MA1
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• Walker, David; Shverdin, Miros; Yavuz, Deniz; Yin, Guang-Yu
• We report the generation of a train of single-cycle optical pulses. Phase-adjusting Raman sidebands from 1.6 microns to 410 nm, produces a waveform having pulsewidth, 1.5 fs; period,...

Self-referenced measurement of the complete electric field of ultrashort pulses in time and space

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MA2
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• Gabolde, Pablo; Akturk, Selcuk; Trebino, Rick
• We propose and demonstrate a technique based on Fourier-synthesis digital holography and frequency-resolved optical gating to measure the complete spatio-temporal behavior of...

Sub-10 fs, multi-mJ Ti:sapphire laser system with a pressure-gradient hollow fiber

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MA3
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• Oishi, Yu; Suda, Akira; Kannari, Fumihiko; Midorikawa, Katsumi
• A 1-kHz repetition rate Ti:sapphire chirped-pulse amplification system with a pressure-gradient hollow fiber was developed to generate sub-10 fs, multi-mJ pulses.

Long-term stabilization and control of CEP of idler from NOPA

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MA4
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• Adachi, Shunsuke; Kobayashi, Takayoshi
• Compressed idler pulse from NOPA with a deformable mirror was characterized by SFM XFROG and long-term CEP of the idler was stabilized and controlled by f-to-2f interferometry scheme.

CEO phase preservation in chirped-pulse optical parametric amplification of 17.3-fs pulses

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MA5
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• Biegert, Jens; Hauri, Christoph P; Schlup, Philip; Kornelis, Wouter; Helbing, Florian W; Keller, Ursula; Arisholm, Gunnar
• We demonstrate the preservation of the carrier-envelope offset (CEO) phase in a chirped-pulse optical parametric amplifier (CPOPA), which yields 85-uJ CEO phase-stabilized pulses that...

Toward a terawatt few-optical-cycle driver laser for attosecond spectroscopy

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MA6
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• Baltuska, Andrius
• We discuss strategies for developing an ultra-high peak power phase-stable source of few-cycle laser pulses. Experiments with a phase-stable 0.1-TW 5-fs Ti:sapphire amplifier and the...

Dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water: Vibrational echoes and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

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• International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2004 paper: MB1
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• Tokmakoff, Andrei
• Water hydrogen bond dynamics are studied by interpreting the OH frequency correlation function of HOD in D2O obtained from vibrational echoes with molecular dynamics simulations....