This paper reports the carrier-envelop phase (CEP) locking for the 5 fs re-compressed laser pulse generated from a chirped pulse amplified (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser at 1 kHz repetition rate. A phase locking feedback system with two loops was designed to control the fast fluctuation arising from the seeding laser and the slow fluctuation arising from the sub-mJ amplified pulse. The principle and structure of the phase control system, including the CEP detection, servo loop design and phase locking result, are analyzed. The experiment shows that our phase locking system can be well used to establish the stable phase locking of few-cycle amplified laser pulse, and the CEP variation of below 53 mrad (rms) was demonstrated during a locking period of more than 3 h.
DU Qiang ZHU JiangFeng TENG Hao YUN ChenXia WEI ZhiYi
This paper investigates experimentally high-order harmonic generation （HHG） of neon gas with 5-fs and 25-fs driving laser pulses. It has been demonstrated that the cutoff energy of the harmonic extreme ultraviolet photons is extended to 131 eV and the HHC spectrum near the cutoff region becomes continuum as the driving laser pulse duration is 5 fs; whereas much lower cutoff photon energy and discrete harmonic spectrum near the cutoff region are presented as the laser pulse duration is 25 fs. The results can be explained by the fact that neutral atoms can be exposed to more intense laser field before they are depleted by ionization because of the extremely short rising time of the few-cycle pulse. The 5-fs driving laser pulse paves the way of generation of coherent x-ray in the water window and single attosecond pulse.
25 fs pulses with energy up to 0.8 mJ from a multi-pass amplifier system have been spectrally broadened from 460 nm to 950 nm due to strong self-phase modulation(SPM) effect in a gas filled hollow fiber.Using a set of chirped mirrors,the ul-tra-broadband dispersion compensation was achieved,and the compressed pulses reached their transform limit.Under optimized conditions we achieved pulses with duration of 5.1 fs and with energy of 400 μJ,corresponding to the peak power up to 80 GW.
