Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 28 April 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5466, pp. 635 - 639
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5466.635
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Research Articles

Carrier-Envelope Phase Control of Femtosecond Mode-Locked Lasers and Direct Optical Frequency Synthesis

David J. Jones, 1* Scott A. Diddams, 1* Jinendra K. Ranka, 2 Andrew Stentz, 2 Robert S. Windeler, 2 John L. Hall, 1* Steven T. Cundiff 1*dagger

We stabilized the carrier-envelope phase of the pulses emitted by a femtosecond mode-locked laser by using the powerful tools of frequency-domain laser stabilization. We confirmed control of the pulse-to-pulse carrier-envelope phase using temporal cross correlation. This phase stabilization locks the absolute frequencies emitted by the laser, which we used to perform absolute optical frequency measurements that were directly referenced to a stable microwave clock.

1 JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA.
2 Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07733, USA.
*   These authors contributed equally to this work.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cundiffs{at}jila.colorado.edu

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Attosecond Ionization and Tunneling Delay Time Measurements in Helium.
P. Eckle, A. N. Pfeiffer, C. Cirelli, A. Staudte, R. Dorner, H. G. Muller, M. Buttiker, and U. Keller (2008)
Science 322, 1525-1529
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Deep-Ultraviolet Quantum Interference Metrology with Ultrashort Laser Pulses.
S. Witte, R. Th. Zinkstok, W. Ubachs, W. Hogervorst, and K. S. E. Eikema (2005)
Science 307, 400-403
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
United Time-Frequency Spectroscopy for Dynamics and Global Structure.
A. Marian, M. C. Stowe, J. R. Lawall, D. Felinto, and J. Ye (2004)
Science 306, 2063-2068
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Standards of Time and Frequency at the Outset of the 21st Century.
S. A. Diddams, J. C. Bergquist, S. R. Jefferts, and C. W. Oates (2004)
Science 306, 1318-1324
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Phase-Coherent Optical Pulse Synthesis from Separate Femtosecond Lasers.
R. K. Shelton, L.-S. Ma, H. C. Kapteyn, M. M. Murnane, J. L. Hall, and J. Ye (2001)
Science 293, 1286-1289
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
X-ray Pulses Approaching the Attosecond Frontier.
M. Drescher, M. Hentschel, R. Kienberger, G. Tempea, C. Spielmann, G. A. Reider, P. B. Corkum, and F. Krausz (2001)
Science 291, 1923-1927
   Abstract »    Full Text »
An Optical Clock Based on a Single Trapped 199Hg+ Ion.
S. A. Diddams, Th. Udem, J. C. Bergquist, E. A. Curtis, R. E. Drullinger, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, W. D. Lee, C. W. Oates, K. R. Vogel, et al. (2001)
Science 293, 825-828
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)