全光纤多种子激光脉冲产生系统

报道一种可精确同步输出宽带啁啾脉冲、纳秒级整形脉冲以及窄带光参量啁啾放大抽运脉冲的全光纤多种子激光脉冲产生系统.采用掺镱光纤锁模激光器和掺镱单纵模光纤振荡器作为系统的光源,将掺镱光纤锁模激光器输出的超短脉冲分束啁啾展宽至0.9ns后,一路进行放大产生10μJ量级的宽带啁啾脉冲为高能拍瓦激光器系统提供种子光脉冲,另一路通过1.2nm滤波产生140ps的基元脉冲,通过光纤堆积器产生可编程整形的2.3ns脉冲,再经过放大达到10μJ量级,提供任意整形的压缩脉冲.同时,将部分掺镱光纤锁模激光器输出的超短脉冲进行光电转换并锁相后,产生与锁模超短脉冲高精度同步的电脉冲用于触发幅度调制器,将掺镱单纵模光纤振荡器输出的连续光削波放大,产生光参量啁啾放大抽运脉冲.该系统能够根据物理实验的需要,非常灵活地在输出各种脉冲之间做出选择.

An all fiber multi-laser pulse generation system

We demonstrate an all fiber multi-laser pulse generation system that can output broadband chirped pulse, nano-second shaped pulse and narrowband pump pulse for optical parametric chirped pulsed amplifiers system with precise synchronization. Yb~(3+)-doped fiber mode-locked laser and single longitudinal oscillator are used as the optical source for the fiber system. The ultra-short pulse train generated from the mode locked fiber laser was split into two beam-lines and both were chirp-stretched to 0. 9 ns. One of them was directly amplified to a magnitude of 10 μJ to provide the high-energy petawatt laser facility with seed pulse. The other was tailored by a 1.2 nm bandwidth filter to form a 140 ps unit pulse. It was then stacked in a fiber stacker and formed a 2. 3 ns arbitrarily shaped pulse. The shaped pulse was amplified to 10 μJ to provide seed pulse for the peUet compression. Simultaneously, we sampled part of the ultra-short pulse train from the mode locked laser. The sampled pulse train was converted to electrical signal and phase-locked to generate trigger pulse that precisely synchronized with the mode locked pulse for an amplitude modulator. The continuous-wave laser generated from the fiber single longitudinal oscillator was tailed by the amplitude modulator and then amplified to provide seed pulse for the OPCPA system. The output of the fiber system can switch between different kinds of pulses with flexibility according to the physical experimental requirement.