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Carrier-envelope phase passively stabilized near-infrared laser pulses from a dual-frequency pumped noncollinear optical parametric amplifier

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By inversing the signal and idler in a two-stage noncollinear optical parametric amplifier which is, respectively, pumped by the second harmonic and fundamental wave of femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser at repetition rate of 1 kHz, the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) passively stabilized pulses with a tunable wavelength from 1.1 to 1.6 μm are obtained with maximum energy of 95 μJ at 1.3 μm under the pump energy of 500 μJ. The CEP jitter of pulses is 108 mrad measured by an f-2f interferometer. This work demonstrates a new way to efficiently generate tunable near-infrared femtosecond laser pulses with self-stabilized CEP.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partly supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2012BAC23B03), National Key Basic Research Program of China (2013CB922401), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11074298, 60878020).

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Shuyan Guo, Hao Teng, Wei Zhang, Lifeng Wang & Zhiyi Wei

  2. Department of Physics, Tianshui Normal University, Tianshui, 741001, Gansu, China

    Weijun Ling

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Guo, S., Ling, W., Teng, H. et al. Carrier-envelope phase passively stabilized near-infrared laser pulses from a dual-frequency pumped noncollinear optical parametric amplifier. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 1045–1048 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0146-4

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