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A fully stabilized low-phase-noise Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser frequency comb with an average power of 1.5 W

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We report a fully stabilized self-referenced all-solid-state-laser frequency comb based on a home-built Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CaYAlO4 oscillator, which delivers ultrafast pulses with a pulse duration of 54 fs and an average power of 1.5 W. Free running carrier-envelope phase offset frequency (fceo) is observed with a signal to noise ratio of 40 dB at 100 kHz resolution bandwidth, which is phase-locked to a microwave frequency synthesizer with a residual phase jitter of 370 mrad [1 Hz–1 MHz] and with a standard frequency deviation of 0.8 mHz at 1-s gate time within 3-h, corresponding to the relative frequency instability of 2.9 × 10−18 at 1-s average time. It is the lowest phase noise and the highest frequency stability of fceo obtained in a watt-level all-solid-state bulk laser frequency comb to the best of our knowledge. A 13th repetition rate is simultaneously phase-locked to the same microwave standard with a frequency instability level of 10−12 at 1 s average time. Such fully stabilized power scaling Yb: CaYAlO4 laser frequency combs have great potential for applications in broadband dual comb spectroscopy as well as high loss cases such as long-distance time and frequency transfer.

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The Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA1502040404, XDB21010400); The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (91850209, 11434016).

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Ziyue Zhang, Hainian Han, Xiaodong Shao & Zhiyi Wei

  2. School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Ziyue Zhang, Xiaodong Shao & Zhiyi Wei

  3. School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Wenlong Tian, Huibo Wang & Zhiyi Wei

  4. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, 523808, Guangdong, China

    Zhiyi Wei

  5. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, 221116, China

    Xiaodong Xu

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Zhang, Z., Han, H., Tian, W. et al. A fully stabilized low-phase-noise Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:CYA laser frequency comb with an average power of 1.5 W. Appl. Phys. B 126, 134 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-020-07485-6

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