钛宝石飞秒激光振荡器的稳定性改善

对钛宝石飞秒激光器脉冲序列的强度和时间的稳定性进行了分析.实验比较了钛宝石飞秒激光器底板有无水冷的条件下,输出锁模脉冲序列的稳定性以及中心波长和光谱宽度的变化.结果表明对钛宝石飞秒激光器底板施加水冷可改善锁模脉冲的稳定性. 关键词： 钛宝石激光器 稳定性 飞秒脉冲     

钛宝石飞秒激光器的锁模机理探讨

测量了X型折叠腔钛宝石飞秒激光器的发光动力学曲线，并运用传播圆 变换圆图解分析方法，系统地探讨了钛宝石飞秒激光器的自锁模机理和过程，提出了一种新的锁模机理——自脉动克尔透镜开关放大锁模. 关键词： 传播圆 变换圆 自脉动克尔透镜开关放大锁模 光学混沌     

多波长钛宝石飞秒激光技术研究

报道了一种新的交叉锁模多波长钛宝石飞秒激光器的设计原理。该激光器能够同步产生两列或三列飞秒光脉冲。持续期短到２５ｆｓ的双波长脉冲调谐在７５５－８４８ｎｍ之间,同步精度约１０ｆｓ。     

由自锁模钛宝石激光器产生19fs脉冲

由自锁模钛宝石激光器产生１９ｆｓ脉冲林位株，赖天树，陈毓川，郑向阳，徐杏绍，莫党（中山大学物理系，广州５１０２７５）自锁模钛宝石激光器是９０年代发展起来的新型固体可调谐激光器，它以其激光频谱调谐范围宽、能够产生飞秒级短脉冲、输出功率高、装置简单和工作...     

三波长单腔型自锁模飞秒钛宝石激光器

在我们优化的自锁模飞秒钛宝石腔型结构的基础上,实现了一台三波长单腔型自锁模飞秒钛宝石激光器,该台激光二器不仅据我们所知首次实现了三波长飞秒光脉冲的同时运转,而且它还具有可调谐、阈值低、输出功率高及易于调整、结构简单等特点.     

用腔内半导体可饱和吸收镜钛宝石激光器中自锁模状态的实验研究

用可饱和吸收体镜(SESAM)的掺钛蓝宝石激光器能够稳定运转在三种不同的锁模状态,即可饱和吸收体被动锁模、孤子锁模加被动锁模和KLM锁模.分析了三种自锁模的机理和SESAM的作用.对SESAM实现KLM锁模的自启动机制进行了实验观察和讨论.从该激光器的KLM锁模状态,获得了小于18飞秒的锁模脉冲序列. 关键词： 半导体可饱和吸收镜 自锁模 钛宝石激光器     

钛宝石飞秒激光器用色散补偿Gires-Tournois镜的研究

根据钛宝石飞秒激光器的色散补偿要求设计了单次反射平均补偿量为-60 fs²的GT(Gires-Tournois)镜,采用离子束辅助沉积技术结合光学监控技术制作了器件.用分光光度计对650—950 nm波段薄膜反射率进行测试,结果表明反射率测试曲线与设计曲线十分符合,同时利用白光干涉系统对群延迟色散进行了测试,测试结果与设计符合得很好,实际的色散曲线振荡基本控制在±20 fs²以内.应用该GT镜进行钛宝石飞秒激光系统的色散补偿,取得了很好的锁模效果,得到了29 fs的超短脉冲. 关键词： 色散补偿 钛宝石飞秒激光器 GT镜 离子束辅助沉积     

直接从钛宝石激光器获得超连续光谱

采用啁啾镜和棱镜对相结合补偿色散的方法在自调Q自锁模钛宝石激光器腔内直接产生了超 过一个倍频程的超连续光谱，光谱范围从460nm到1000nm；这是飞秒激光器输出光谱在短波 波段第一次突破500nm.这将使得脉冲的载波包络偏移频率的测量装置得到大大简化，同时也 提高了光频测量的稳定性. 关键词： 超连续光谱 啁啾镜 自调Q自锁模 钛宝石激光器     

用于飞秒脉冲锁模激光器中的优化Gires-Tournois反射镜

根据飞秒脉冲锁模钛宝石激光器腔内色散补偿的要求,设定负色散镜的色散目标值,用最优化方法,设计出了负色散Gires-Toumois(G-T)反射镜,计算了光场在优化负色散G－T反射镜不同膜层内的分布,不同波长的光场分量,在优化负色散G－T反射镜内部,穿透深度不同,在720nm-900nm波长范围内,长波分量有较大的穿透深度,因而对长波分量提供较大的时间延迟,将其用于飞秒锁模钛宝石激光器中,取代传统的腔内色散补偿棱镜对,结合半导体可饱和吸收镜（SESAM）自启动锁模,在钛宝石激光器中获得了56fs脉冲。     

低阈值飞秒钛宝石激光器的理论研究

利用数值求解的方法，从理论上系统分析了决定钛宝石激光器锁模阈值的几个关键因素. 定 量分析了腔模对克尔效应的主导作用，并将光孤子模型引入低阈值锁模理论，分析了色散与 阈值的关系. 根据理论指导在实验上完成了一台阈值低至390 mW自启动飞秒掺钛蓝宝石激光 器. 关键词： 低阈值 掺钛蓝宝石激光器 克尔透镜锁模 光孤子     

Voltage-controlled intracavity terahertz generator for self-starting Ti:sapphire lasers

A new, efficient, intracavity scheme for terahertz generation in femtosecond mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers is proposed and demonstrated. The terahertz radiation is generated by a transient photocurrent in a GaAs layer grown on a fast semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The average terahertz output radiation power is voltage controlled and can be electrically modulated at frequencies up to 100 kHz.     

14-fs pulse generation in Kerr-lens mode-locked prismless Cr:LiSGaF and Cr:LiSAF lasers: observation of pulse self-frequency shift

Kerr-lens mode-locked Kr-laser-pumped Cr:LiSGaF and Cr:LiSAF lasers containing only two newly developed low-loss chirped mirrors instead of conventional dielectric resonator mirrors and generating pulses of widths as small as 14-fs with as much as 100 mW of average output power are reported. We report what is to our knowledge the first experimental observation of a pulse self-frequency shift in crystalline active media that are characteristic of such short pulses at megawatt intracavity peak powers. We also believe this phenomenon to be one of the significant limiting factors for pulse duration in femtosecond Cr:LiSAF-type lasers.     

Ultralow-threshold Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:Al(2)O(3) laser

An ultralow-threshold Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:Al(2)O(3) laser achieved by use of an extended cavity design is demonstrated. Mode-locking thresholds as low as 156 mW are achieved. Pulses with durations as short as 14 fs and bandwidths of >100 nm with output powers of ~15 mW at 50-MHz repetition rates are generated by only 200 mW of pump power. Reducing the pump power requirements to a factor of 10x less than required by most conventional Kerr-lens mode-locked lasers permits inexpensive, low-power pump lasers to be used. This will facilitate the development of low-cost, high-performance femtosecond Ti:Al(2)O(3) laser technology.     

Optical frequency measurement across a 104-THz gap with a femtosecond laser frequency comb

The frequency-domain mode comb of a Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser centered at 350 THz is broadened to 150 THz (full width at -30 dBc) by self-phase modulation in a single-mode optical fiber. By phase locking continuous-wave lasers to elements of the comb near 1064 and 778 nm, we measure the 104-THz frequency gap between these two lasers with a relative uncertainty of 2.7 x 10(-11) in 1 s.     

Independently tunable 1.3 W femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers passively synchronized with attosecond timing jitter and ultrahigh robustness

A stable passively synchronized femtosecond laser has been realized by coupling two 1.3 W mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers with a Kerr medium. An ultralong tolerance of 10 microm for the cavity length mismatch and a timing jitter of less than 0.4 fs were obtained. The relative carrier-envelope phase slip was directly observed by measuring the heterodyne output between the two lasers.     

Intensity-related dynamics of femtosecond frequency combs

We have performed systematic studies of intensity-related dynamics of the pulse repetition and carrier-envelope offset frequencies in mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers. We compared the results far two laser systems that have different intracavity dispersion-compensation schemes. We found that the carrier-envelope phase noise and its dynamic response depend critically on the mode-locking conditions. An intensity-related shift of the laser spectrum was found to be instrumental in interpretations.     

Experimental evidence for soliton explosions

We show, experimentally and numerically, that Ti:sapphire mode-locked lasers can operate in a regime in which they intermittently produce exploding solitons. This happens when the laser operates near a critical point. Explosions happen spontaneously, but external perturbations can trigger them. In stable operation, all explosions have similar features, but are not identical. The characteristics of the explosions depend on the intracavity dispersion.     

Relative carrier-envelope phase dynamics between passively synchronized Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite lasers

We observed and measured the relative carrier-envelope phase difference per round trip between synchronized femtosecond Ti:sapphire and Cr:forsterite mode-locked lasers. The relative carrier-envelope phase slip was directly recorded by heterodyning of the Cr:forsterite laser with the supercontinuum from the Ti:sapphire laser. We also obtained another phase relation by superimposing the third harmonic of the Cr:forsterite laser with the second harmonic of the Ti:sapphire laser. In the latter case we obtained a stable beat signal with a signal-to-noise ratio larger than 30 dB and found a dependence of the beat frequency on the cavity length.     

自锁模掺钛宝石激光器的泵浦研究

对自锁模掺钛宝石激光器的原理作了较详细的描述，指出克尔透镜效应是形成自锁模的主要原因，但是，只有将克尔透镜自聚焦、振荡光参数和泵浦光参数三者结合起来考虑，才能全面了解自锁模的形成过程，本文从速率方程出发，得出了激光介质增益与光束参数的相对变化曲线，并据此来优化自锁模钛宝石激光器的设计，最后，将计算结果与实验作了比较，两者符合得较好。     

High-speed terahertz time-domain spectroscopy based on electronically controlled optical sampling

We demonstrate high-speed terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy based on electronically controlled optical sampling (ECOPS). The ECOPS system utilizes two synchronized Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers with a 100 MHz repetition frequency. The time delay between the two laser pulses is demonstrated to be rapidly swept at a scan rate of 1 kHz on a time delay window of 77 ps by using an external offset voltage applied to a locking electronics. It is shown that a THz pulse can be exactly measured by ECOPS, as is done by asynchronous optical sampling (ASOPS), and the measurement time is shortened by a factor of 50 by using ECOPS compared with ASOPS in the case of employing 100 MHz repetition-rate lasers.