TY - JOUR
AU - R. Shelton
AU - L.-S. Ma
AU - Henry Kapteyn
AU - Margaret Murnane
AU - John Hall
AU - Jun Ye
AB - Two independent mode-locked femtosecond lasers are synchronized
to an unprecedented precision. The rms timing jitter between the lasers is
4.3 fs observed within a 160Hz bandwidth over tens of seconds, or 26 fs within a 50 kHz bandwidth. Novel multi-stage phase-locked loops help to preserve this ultrahigh timing resolution while setting on arbitrary delay between the two pulse trains (0±5 ns). Under such synchronization, phase locking between the carrier frequencies of the two femtosecond lasers has been achieved. It is also demonstrated that the same level of synchronization can be achieved with two lasers at di€ erent repetition frequencies.
BT - Journal of Modern Optics
DA - 2002-03
DO - 10.1080/09500340110088533
N2 - Two independent mode-locked femtosecond lasers are synchronized
to an unprecedented precision. The rms timing jitter between the lasers is
4.3 fs observed within a 160Hz bandwidth over tens of seconds, or 26 fs within a 50 kHz bandwidth. Novel multi-stage phase-locked loops help to preserve this ultrahigh timing resolution while setting on arbitrary delay between the two pulse trains (0±5 ns). Under such synchronization, phase locking between the carrier frequencies of the two femtosecond lasers has been achieved. It is also demonstrated that the same level of synchronization can be achieved with two lasers at di€ erent repetition frequencies.
PY - 2002
SP - 401
EP - 409
T2 - Journal of Modern Optics
TI - Active synchronization and carrier phase locking of two separate mode-locked femtosecond lasers
VL - 49
SN - 0950-0340
ER -