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Long-term passive stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of an intense infrared few-cycle pulse source

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We present long-term stability of the carrier-envelope phase of intense infrared few-cycle pulses at 1.6 μm, generated by optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification. The employed system is based on a passive stabilization scheme that obviates the need for active feedback loops, and requires only control of environmental parameters. The stabilization is demonstrated to last for up to 45 h, during which the carrier-envelope phase drift is measured to be less than \(250\,\text{mrad}\). This marks, to the best of our knowledge, the longest demonstrated phase-stable operation of a passively stabilized, amplified few-cycle source to date.

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This research was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), Grant Number 23226003, and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Grant Number 25790063, of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and by the Photon Frontier Network Program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan.

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    Henning Geiseler, Nobuhisa Ishii, Keisuke Kaneshima, Teruto Kanai & Jiro Itatani

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Geiseler, H., Ishii, N., Kaneshima, K. et al. Long-term passive stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of an intense infrared few-cycle pulse source. Appl. Phys. B 117, 941–946 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-014-5912-0

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