Long-term optical phase locking between femtosecond Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite lasers

Opt Lett. 2005 Sep 15;30(18):2496-8. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.002496.

Abstract

Long-term optical phase-coherent two-color femtosecond pulses were generated by use of passively timing-synchronized Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite lasers. The relative carrier-envelope phase relation was fixed by an active feedback loop. The accumulated phase noise from 10 mHz to 1 MHz of the locked beat note was 0.43 rad, showing tight phase locking. The optical frequency fluctuation between two femtosecond combs was submillihertz, with a 1 s averaged counter measurement over 3400 s, leading to a long-term femtosecond frequency-comb connection.