15min:
POWER SCALING OF VUV AND XUV FREQUENCY COMBS.

DYLAN YOST, ARMAN CINGOZ, JUN YE, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440; AXEL RUEHL, MARTIN E. FERMANN, INGMAR HARTL, IMRA America, Inc., 1044 Woodridge Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA.

By coupling a train of low-phase-noise, ultrashort pulses to a femtosecond enhancement cavity, it is possible to obtain a large enhancement of the pulse energy and subsequently drive the high harmonic generation process at \geq100 MHz repetition rates. At these repetition frequencies, the generated VUV-XUV frequency combs could potentially be used for a multitude of experiments requiring short wavelength radiation with exceptional temporal coherence and/or high average photon flux. We will present recent progress, including power scaling of the driving field with a corresponding factor of ~10 improvement in harmonic power over previous results, as well as initial coherence tests of the generated VUV frequency comb.