The feed-forward technique has recently revolutionized carrier-envelope phase stabilization, enabling unprecedented
values of residual phase jitter. Nevertheless, in its original demonstrations the stabilized beam exhibited angular and
temporal dispersion. We demonstrate that these problems can be solved, resulting in few-cycle pulses with good beam
quality. This in turn enables the use of monolithic interferometers, providing excellent long-term stability of the system.
Out-of-loop RMS phase noise of less than 80 mrad over 33 minutes (0.5 mHz to 5 kHz) is measured, i.e., a value that has
previously been reported for a few seconds integration time. The current method promises to enable reliable operation of
CEP-stable systems over several days.
Circularly polarized, 25 fs 5 mJ pulses generated at a repetition rate of 1 kHz from a two-stage chirped pulse amplifier
were spectrally broadened by means of nonlinear propagation in a Ne-filled hollow fiber. Subsequent compression with
dispersive mirrors resulted in 5.2 fs, 1.7 mJ pulses. After recompression an all-reflective achromatic phase retarder was
used to obtain linear polarization.
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