Long-term carrier-envelope-phase stabilized fiber-bulk hybrid laser with millihertz linewidth and 50 W average power

Abstract

Long-term carrier-envelope-phase stabilization was demonstrated in high-power large-modearea fiber chirped-pulse spectral fraction amplification at 1030 nm of a broadband femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. The carrier enveloped phase was stably controlled with the maximum average power up to 50 W by pre-compensating the carrier-envelope phase changes in the high-power fiber amplifiers. The locked in loop and out of loop frequency fluctuation was measured to be 1.44 and 46 mHz within half an hour. The locked carrier-frequency exhibited an in loop and out of loop beat signal linewidth of 1.66 and 2.27 mHz, accordingly accumulated phase jitter was estimated to be 0.22 and 0.73 rad, respectively, with the integration range from 10 mHz to 100 kHz. The phase stabilization was measured to change little as the output power increased, confirming negligible amplitude-to-phase noise conversions in the linear high-power fiber chirped pulse amplification.