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News Release from: Coherent | Subject: Micra-CEP
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2007
CEP-stabilised ultrafast laser pulses
The Micra with CEP stabiliser is a powerful and flexible broadband laser source for the emerging fields of attosecond research, high harmonic generation, optical clocks and coherent control
The new Micra-CEP from Coherent is a unique system for generating carrier envelope phase (CEP) stabilised ultrafast laser pulses The system combines Coherent's highly flexible and stable broadband ultrafast Micra laser with a carrier envelope phase detection module and fast feedback electronics
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 28 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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By active feedback control of the laser, the CEP stabiliser locks the phase velocity of the oscillating light field to the group velocity of the pulse envelope.
Thus for ultrashort pulses consisting of only a few optical cycles, the peak of the oscillating electric field can be maximized under the pulse envelope.
At the heart of the CEP module is a non-linear interferometer.
This unit uses a photonic crystal fiber to generate an octave-spanning optical spectrum.
The red end of this spectrum is frequency doubled and combined with the green end of this same broad spectrum.
The resultant beat frequency is sensed by a fast photodetector that provides the CEP feedback signal.
After suitable processing, this signal is then used to control a fast cavity mirror actuator inside the Micra laser and thereby control the carrier phase.
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