亚10 fs激光脉冲产生中的受激拉曼散射与四波混频效应

自行搭建的自锁模钛宝石激光器工作在下稳区的上边界附近,采用熔融石英棱镜对在激光器谐振腔的腔内和腔外同时进行群速度色散补偿.随着腔内棱镜对提供色散补偿的变化,输出激光脉冲的频谱会突然展宽至664—840nm,其空间模式也由基横模变化至衍射环状结构,这是受激拉曼散射和四波混频效应导致锁模激光脉冲频谱进一步展宽的结果.在此状态下自锁模钛宝石激光器可实现670—865nm范围的波长调谐.如此宽的频谱为钛宝石激光器产生亚10fs激光脉冲提供了必要的条件. 关键词： 飞秒激光脉冲 受激拉曼散射 四波混频 群速度色散     

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.     

自启动,长时间稳定,低功率泵浦的超短脉冲掺钛蓝宝石激光器

接钛蓝宝石晶体具有宽增益带（660～1100um）和大的增益截面（～3×10－19cm2），因此用掺钛蓝宝石激光器极易产生超短脉冲、高功率激光。主动锁模、被动锁模、对撞脉冲锁模、耦合腔锁模（APM）以及同步泵浦锁模的掺钛蓝宝石激光器，都已实现超短脉冲激光输出。更引人瞩目的是在掺钛蓝宝石激光器上采用自锁模技术，来获得超短脉冲激光。自锁模掺钛蓝宝石激光器的结构简单、运行稳定，已被广泛应用。目前国际上自锁模掺钛蓝宝石激光器产生的最短脉冲为8．5fs’‘’，对应的光谱宽度为151urn。掺钛蓝宝石激光器能自锁模产生超短脉冲的机理一…     

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。     

短暂时间间隔测量及飞秒技术

回顾了短暂时间间隔测量的历史。条纹概念的引入、电光源和电子仪器的使用、激光的出现使能测量到的短暂时间间隔大大缩短。由于对撞脉冲锁模和啁啾脉冲压缩新概念的提出,人们将脉冲宽度压缩到了几个飞秒。介绍了自锁模钛宝石激光器的锁模、放大和调谐的工作原理以及飞秒技术在物理学、生物学、化学控制反应、光通讯等领域中的应用。     

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     

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     

自锁模激光器

概述了自锁模激光器的新成就（包括我们自已的工作）。在实验上，自锁模钛宝石激光器可以输出１３ｆｓ的短激光脉冲，这是直接从激光器中获得的最短脉冲；自锁模溴化亚铜激光器可以输出高稳定性的激光脉冲，从而彻底否定了自锁模没有实用价值的传统认识。在理论上，自克尔镜模型解释了自聚焦激光介质引起的锁模现象；增益凹陷模型解释了宽带激光介质自吸收起的锁模现象和窄带激光介质增益谱线分裂引起的锁模现象。最后，对它们的输出     

连续自锁模钛宝石激光器

锁模的钛宝石激光器是近红外波段比较可靠的飞秒(fs)超短脉冲光源.用氩离子激光器,实现了连续钛宝石激光器自锁模运转,输出脉宽92fs、谱宽8.5nm、平均功率大于200mW、调谐范围750～850nm.实验中Ti:Al_2O_3自锁模激光器结构如图1所示,谐振腔采用了“Z”形折送四镜象散补偿腔,M_1和M_2为曲率半径150mm高反镜,M_3为耦合输出镜,透过率5%,M_4为平面高反端腔镜,总腔长为1.6m左右,非对称排布M_2M_3相似文献   

高效、高峰值功率蓝光飞秒脉冲产生研究

分析计算了利用棱镜组引进频谱空间啁啾来补偿谐波倍频晶体的相位失配.结果表明,光谱 存在空间啁啾时,选择合适的透镜可在一定程度上补偿由于飞秒光脉冲的宽谱带引起的相位失配.采用此方法在实验上用自制的飞秒自锁模钛宝石激光器和BBO倍频晶体进行了二次谐波 倍频的研究,结果产生倍频蓝光的转换效率高达63%,蓝光平均输出功率达320mW,中心波长 为420nm,光谱带宽达5.5nm,可支持33.6fs的光脉冲.利用钛宝石激光器中的棱镜对进行波 长调谐,可使蓝光脉冲产生404—420nm的调谐范围. 关键词： 飞秒蓝光脉冲 空间啁啾补偿 二次谐波产生 转换效率     

Direct field-resolved detection of terahertz transients with amplitudes of megavolts per centimeter

Phase-matched difference-frequency mixing in a thin GaSe crystal within the broad spectrum of 25-fs pulses from a Ti:sapphire oscillator multipass amplifier system permits the generation of few-cycle electric field transients, frequencies up to 30 THz, and amplitudes of more than 1 MV/cm. The field transients generated at a 1-kHz repetition rate are directly measured by electro-optic sampling by 12-f probe pulses from the 75-MHz repetition-rate Ti:sapphire oscillator in combination with a novel electronic gating technique.     

Gain dynamics of two-wavelength Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser

We report the theory and experiments of a two-wavelength bi-tuning femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. The cross-mode-locked gain competition is described with numerical solution and operation of the laser is accomplished in which two trains of femtosecond pulses cross in the Ti:sapphire rod. For this reason, a cross-bearings technique is used. The laser resonator is a six-mirror bi-cavity, and two beams of pump lights cross in Ti:sapphire crystal. Two trains of sub-30 fs cross-mode-locked pulses have been generated with independent tunable wavelength when the pump power of the argon laser is approximately 5 W. As the design of the bi-cavity is fine, not only strong gain competition is overcome, but also stable output characteristics are performed. Received: 21 July 1998 / Revised version: 5 January 1999 / Published online: 30 July 1999     

12-fs pulses from a continuous-wave-pumped 200-nJ Ti:sapphire amplifier at a variable repetition rate as high as 4 MHz

We demonstrate a novel compact femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser system operating at repetition rates from 10 kHz to 4 MHz. The scheme is based on the combination of a broadband cavity-dumped oscillator and a double-pass Ti:sapphire amplifier pumped by a low-noise cw solid-state laser. Amplified pulses with an extremely smooth spectrum, a duration of only 12 fs, and less than 0.25% rms fluctuation are generated in a beam with M2 < 1.2. A maximum pulse energy of 210 nJ and an average output power of as much as 720 mW are achieved. This output energy is sufficient to generate a stable continuum in a sapphire disk.     

Generation of accurately synchronized pump source for optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

We demonstrate the generation of ultra-short pulses at 1064 nm by continuous-wave seeded non-collinear optical parametric amplification in a -barium borate crystal pumped by the second harmonics of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. After two stages of seeded parametric amplifiers, the generated pulses at 1064 nm were accurately synchronized with the fundamental pump pulses, which could be used as seeding pulses for further amplification and then frequency doubling to produce an accurately synchronized pump source for optical parametric amplification of chirped pulses from the same Ti:sapphire laser. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.65.-k; 52.35.Mw     

Generation of sub-6-fs blue pulses by frequency doubling with quasi-phase-matching gratings

We demonstrate the generation of sub-6-fs pulses centered at 405 nm by frequency doubling of 8.6-fs Ti:sapphire laser pulses. The frequency doubling is carried out in a nonlinearly chirped quasi-phase-matching grating fabricated in a lithium tantalate substrate. This device simultaneously provides frequency conversion and pulse compression of the positively prechirped fundamental pulses. The second-harmonic pulses are characterized in a cross-correlation setup, and their pulse shapes are retrieved by two iterative phase-reconstruction algorithms. The generated second-harmonic spectrum spans a bandwidth of 220 THz. To our knowledge, these are the shortest pulses ever generated in the blue spectral region.     

Parametric generation of high-energy 14.5-fs light pulses at 1.5 mum

High-energy light pulses that are tunable from 1.1 to 2.6 mum, with a duration as short as 14.5 fs were generated in a type II phase-matching beta-BaB(2)O(4) traveling-wave parametric converter pumped by 18-fs pulses obtained from a Ti:sapphire laser with chirped-pulse amplification, followed by a hollow-fiber compressor.     

Generation of high-energy, sub-20-fs pulses in the deep ultraviolet by using spectral broadening during filamentation in argon

Generation of sub-20-fs UV pulses with more than 300 μJ energy at 268 nm is reported. First, the UV pulses are produced by successive second-harmonic and third-harmonic (TH) generation of 805 nm pulses of a 1 kHz Ti:sapphire laser amplifier. The spectral broadening of TH pulses is realized in a filament, generated in argon. The produced pulses are compressed in a simple double-pass prism-pair compressor. Starting from 100 fs pulses, we achieve a fivefold pulse shortening.     

Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs

High-energy 20-fs pulses generated by a Ti:sapphire laser system were spectrally broadened to more than 250 nm by self-phase modulation in a hollow fiber filled with noble gases and subsequently compressed in a broadband high-throughput dispersive system. Pulses as short as 4.5 fs with energy up to 20-microJ were obtained with krypton, while pulses as short as 5 fs with energy up to 70 microJ were obtained with argon. These pulses are, to our knowledge, the shortest generated to date at multigigawatt peak powers.     

Nonlinear optics with phase-controlled pulses in the sub-two-cycle regime.

Nonlinear optical effects due to the phase between carrier and envelope are observed with 5 fs pulses from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. These sub-two-cycle pulses with octave spanning spectra are the shortest pulses ever generated directly from a laser oscillator. Detection of the carrier-envelope phase slip is made possible by simply focusing the short pulses directly from the oscillator into a BBO crystal. As a further example of nonlinear optics with such short pulses, the interference between second- and third-harmonic components is also demonstrated.     

Generation of 5-fs pulses and octave-spanning spectra directly from a Ti:sapphire laser

Spectra extending from 600 to 1200 nm have been generated from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser producing 5-fs pulses. Specially designed double-chirped mirror pairs provide broadband controlled dispersion, and a second intracavity focus in a glass plate provides additional spectral broadening. These spectra are to our knowledge the broadest ever generated directly from a laser oscillator.