First Detection and Stabilization of the Carrier Envelope Offset of a Diode-Pumped Mode-Locked Ti : Sapphire Laser

K. Gürel, V. J. Wittwer, S. Hakobyan, S. Schilt, and T. Südmeyer

Abstract

So far, Ti:Sapphire-based frequency comb systems required complex bulk green pump lasers. Here we show that green diode pumping enables compact and cost-efficient femtosecond Ti:Sapphire lasers for coherent octave-spanning supercontinuum generation and frequency comb stabilization.