Controlling the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Light Pulses with Optical Parametric Amplifiers
Abstract
The phase link between signal, idler, and pump waves in a parametric interaction allows generation of an idler pulse with a phase independent of that of the input pulse. We suggest the use of a white-light seeded optical parametric amplifier as a self-stabilized source of few-cycle pulses, in which the phase of the electric field is exactly reproduced in each laser shot.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.133901
- Bibcode:
- 2002PhRvL..88m3901B