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Direct carrier–envelope phase stabilization of a soliton-effect compressed sub-two-cycle pulse source through nonlinear mixing of solitonic and dispersive waves

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We present a carrier–envelope phase (CEP) stabilized sub-two-cycle 5.2 fs pulse source based on soliton-effect self-compression of femtosecond laser pulses in millimetre-long highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibres. We employ a simple and efficient scheme to generate a strong (40–60 dB, configuration dependent) CEP beat signal directly from the pulse source via f-to-2f interferometry where the second harmonic of the main soliton pulse is mixed with the isolated dispersive blue/green radiation peak that is also generated in the compression process, obviating the need for additional spectral broadening mechanisms.

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the fruitful discussions with Luc Bergé from CEA-DAM, during and after the Conference CLEO-EQEC 2011, in Munich. This work was partly supported by FCT: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and FEDER through grant PTDC/FIS/115102/2009. A. A. Amorim acknowledges financial support from IPP-ISEP (Instituto Politécnico do Porto – Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto), Portugal, under a PhD grant from the PFAD: Programa de Formação Avançada de Docentes.

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  1. Departamento de Física e Astronomia, IFIMUP and IN-Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, R. do Campo Alegre 687, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal

    A. A. Amorim, L. M. Bernardo & H. M. Crespo

  2. Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Rua S. Tomé, 4200, Porto, Portugal

    A. A. Amorim

  3. Ultrafast Optics and X-rays Division, CFEL-Center for Free-Electron Laser Science/DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany

    F. X. Kärtner

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139-430, USA

    F. X. Kärtner

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Amorim, A.A., Bernardo, L.M., Kärtner, F.X. et al. Direct carrier–envelope phase stabilization of a soliton-effect compressed sub-two-cycle pulse source through nonlinear mixing of solitonic and dispersive waves. Appl. Phys. B 111, 659–664 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-013-5393-6

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