Sub-single-cycle optical pulse train with constant carrier envelope phase

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Apr 25;100(16):163906. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.163906. Epub 2008 Apr 25.

Abstract

We describe the synthesis of periodic waveforms consisting of a train of pulses that are 0.83 cycles long and have an electric field pulse width of 0.44 fs using 7 Raman sidebands generated by molecular modulation in H2. We verify by optical correlation that the carrier-envelope phase is constant in these waveforms when they are synthesized from commensurate sidebands. The estimated overall shift of the carrier-envelope phase is less than 0.18 cycles from the first to the last pulse of nearly 10(6) pulses in the pulse train.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't