Pulse light source device and method for creating cep stable fs laser pulses

Abstract

A pulse light source device () for creating fs output laser pulses () having CEP stability comprises a pulse source device () creating primary ps laser pulses, a first beam splitting device () splitting the primary ps laser pulses to first ps laser pulses () and second ps laser pulses (), a pulse shortening device () creating sub-ps laser pulses () by shortening and spectrally broadening the first ps laser pulses (), a primary supercontinuum generation device () creating primary fs laser pulses (), a pulse stretcher device () creating stretched ps laser pulses () by stretching the primary fs laser pulses (), a optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification device () creating amplified ps laser pulses () on the basis of the stretched ps laser pulses () and the second ps laser pulses (); a phase stabilization device () creating CEP stable ps laser pulses () by difference frequency generation of the amplified ps laser pulses () and reference laser pulses derived from the primary ps laser pulses () or the sub-ps laser pulses (), a pulse compressor device () creating compressed fs laser pulses () by compressing the CEP stable ps laser pulses () output by the phase stabilization device (), and a secondary supercontinuum generation device () creating fs output laser pulses as the fs output laser pulses () to be obtained by spectrally broadening the compressed fs laser pulses (). Furthermore, a method of creating fs output laser pulses is described.