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The carrier-envelope offset frequency of a laser oscillator is determined from the visibility of spectrally resolved fringes in a combined two-path multiple-path interferometer. At maximum visibility the pulses have zero carrier-envelope phase drift, while the visibility becomes zero for uncorrelated pulses. The method is widely independent of bandwidth and pulse energy. The effects of carrier-envelope offset phase noise, finite detection time, and dispersion are also discussed.
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Görbe, M., Grebing, C., Steinmeyer, G. et al. A linear optical method for measuring the carrier-envelope phase drift. Appl. Phys. B 95, 273–280 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3424-0
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