Abstract

In our contribution we report on phase-locked optical coherence experiments on the 10 fs timescale. While optical-phase sensitive experiments have been suggested [1] and performed in the past on a 100 fs timescale [2], exploration of their true potential had to wait for the right fs laser to appear on the scene. A 13-fs cavity-dumped Ti:sapphire laser [3] turned out to be ideal source to extend these experiments to 10-fs time scale due to extremely high amplitude and spectral stability.

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