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Venkata Ramaiah‐Badarla Adolfo Esteban‐Martin Majid Ebrahim‐Zadeh 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2013,7(5):L55-L60
A self‐phase‐locked degenerate femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on the birefringent nonlinear material, bismuth triborate, BiB3O6, synchronously‐pumped by a Kerr‐lens‐mode‐locked Ti:sapphire laser at 800 nm is described. By exploiting versatile phase‐matching properties of BiB3O6, including large spectral and angular acceptance for parametric generation and low group velocity dispersion in the optical xz plane, stable self‐phase‐locked degenerate OPO operation centered at 1600 nm is demonstrated using collinear type I (e → oo) interaction in a 1.5‐mm crystal at room temperature. The degenerate OPO output spectrum extends over 46 nm (∼5.4 THz) with 190 fs pulse duration for input pump pulses of 155 fs with a bandwidth of 7 nm. Phase coherence between the pump and degenerate output is verified using f‐2f interferometry, and discrete frequency beats caused by different carrier‐envelope‐offset frequencies are measured using radio frequency measurements. Photo shows a 1.5‐mm BiB3O6 crystal used as a nonlinear gain medium in a degenerate self‐phase‐locked femtosecond OPO operating at room temperature. The green beam is the result of non‐phase‐matched sum‐frequency mixing between the pump light and the sub‐harmonic OPO field at degeneracy. 相似文献
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Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar Adolfo Esteban‐Martin Takuro Ideguchi Ming Yan Simon Holzner Theodor W. Hnsch Nathalie Picqu Majid Ebrahim‐Zadeh 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2014,8(5):L86-L91
A few‐cycle, broadband, singly‐resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) for the mid‐infrared based on MgO‐doped periodically‐poled LiNbO3 (MgO:PPLN), synchronously pumped by a 20‐fs Ti:sapphire laser is reported. By using crystal interaction lengths as short as 250 µm, and careful dispersion management of input pump pulses and the OPO resonator, near‐transform‐limited, few‐cycle idler pulses tunable across the mid‐infrared have been generated, with as few as 3.7 optical cycles at 2682 nm. The OPO can be continuously tuned over 2179‐3732 nm (4589‐2680 cm‐1) by cavity delay tuning, providing up to 33 mW of output power at 3723 nm. The idler spectra exhibit stable broadband profiles with bandwidths spanning over 422 nm (FWHM) recorded at 3732 nm. The effect of crystal length on spectral bandwidth and pulse duration is investigated at a fixed wavelength, confirming near‐transform‐limited idler pulses for all grating interaction lengths. By locking the repetition frequency of the pump laser to a radio‐frequency reference, and without active stabilization of the OPO cavity length, an idler power stability better than 1.6% rms over >2.75 hours is obtained when operating at maximum output power, in excellent spatial beam quality with TEM00 mode profile. Photograph shows a multigrating MgO:PPLN crystal used as a nonlinear gain medium in the few‐cycle femtosecond mid‐IR OPO. The visible light is the result of non‐phase‐matched sum‐frequency mixing between the interacting beams. 相似文献
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We report a high‐repetition‐rate picosecond fiber‐based source at 2.1 µm offering exceptional performance capabilities over existing lasers near this wavelength, providing high average power and efficiency together with excellent spectral, power and beam pointing stability, in high spatial beam quality. This new source is based on a near‐degenerate MgO:PPLN optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumped by an Yb‐fiber laser at 1064 nm, and incorporating a diffraction grating for spectral control. The device provides as much as 7.1 W of average power at 2.1 µm for a pump power of 18 W at an extraction efficiency of 39.4% in pulses of 20 ps at 79.3 MHz. The output exhibits passive power stability better than 1% rms over 15 hours, and a beam pointing stability ∼40 µrad over 1 hour, in high spatial quality with M2 ∼ 3.5. The output beam is linearly polarized and the pulse train has an amplitude stability better than 3.4% rms over 2 µsec. Radio‐frequency measurements of the output pulse train also confirm high temporal stability and low timing jitter, indicating that the source is ideal for variety of applications including pumping long‐wavelength mid‐infrared OPOs. Photograph shows the temperature‐controlled, 50‐mm‐long MgO:PPLN crystal inside the cavity, used as nonlinear gain medium in the picosecond source operating at 2.1 µm. The visible light is the result of non‐phase‐matched second harmonic generation of the pump beam in the MgO:PPLN crystal.
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A. Esteban‐Martin V. Ramaiah‐Badarla M. Ebrahim‐Zadeh 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2012,6(5):L7-L11
A novel technique for coupling of two resonant optical cavities using an antiresonant ring (ARR) interferometer is reported. By deploying two synchronously‐pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillators (OPOs), it is shown that the use of an ARR can provide an intracavity common path for the two oscillating fields, but without gain coupling between the two nonlinear media. The new technique permits the generation of two signal (idler) wavelengths, which can be independently and arbitrarily varied across the OPO tuning range. The absence of gain coupling also enables unrestricted and uninterrupted tuning through wavelength degeneracy at any arbitrary point within the OPO tuning range. It is shown that signal wavelength pairs tunable across 1500–1580 nm, corresponding to a frequency separation from ∼ 10 THz down to exact degeneracy, can be generated from the coupled OPOs, limited only by the reflectivity of the available mirrors. 相似文献
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X. L. Li H. J. Liu H. Y. Wang W. Zhao Y. S. Wang S. X. Shi 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2008,47(2):309-312
A novel double-pass noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier
based on an Yb3+-doped passively mode-locked fiber laser has been
demonstrated in this paper. The signal was double-pass amplified in a single
nonlinear crystal by a long pump pulse, and the signal and pump pulses of
each pass were completely phase matched in the plane of the maximum
effective nonlinearity. Net saturated gain of 2×106 was
achieved and the superfluorescence was suppressed by increasing the overlap
time between the signal and pump pulses. 相似文献
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《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2017,11(6)
A high‐power femtosecond Yb:fiber system is seeded by a phase‐locked Er:fiber source and drives an ultra‐broadband optical parametric amplifier that operates at 10 MHz repetition rate. The resulting pulses display precise control of the carrier‐envelope phase. Their 8.3 fs temporal duration corresponds to 2.3 optical cycles of the 1100 nm carrier wavelength. Focusing 200 nJ of pulse energy into widegap materials generates optical harmonics up to fifth order. Even in a perturbative regime, strong effects of the carrier‐envelope phase on the emitted spectra are observed. 相似文献
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Magnus W. Haakestad Alireza Marandi Nick Leindecker Konstantin L. Vodopyanov 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2013,7(6):L93-L97
Five‐cycle (50 fs) mid‐IR pulses at 80‐MHz repetition rate are produced using a degenerate (subharmonic) optical parametric oscillator (OPO), synchronously pumped by an ultrafast 1560‐nm fiber laser. The effects of cavity dispersion and the length of a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) gain element on the output spectrum and pulse duration are investigated by taking advantage of a very broad (∼ 1000 cm−1) gain bandwidth near the 3.1‐μm OPO degeneracy point. A new method of assessing the total OPO group delay dispersion across its entire spectrum is proposed, based on measuring spectral signatures of trace amounts of molecular gases injected into the OPO cavity. 相似文献
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One of the most advanced frontiers of ultrafast optics is the control of carrier‐envelope phase (CEP) ϕ of light pulses, which enables the generation of optical waveforms with reproducible electric field profile. Such control is important for pulses with few‐optical‐cycle duration, for which a CEP variation produces a strong change in the waveform, so that strongly nonlinear optical phenomena, such as multiphoton absorption, above‐threshold ionization and high‐harmonic generation become CEP‐dependent. In particular, CEP control is the prerequisite for the production of isolated attosecond pulses. Standard laser systems generate pulses that are CEP unstable; the CEP can be stabilized using either active or passive methods. Passive, all‐optical schemes rely on difference‐frequency generation (DFG) between two pulses sharing the same CEP: in this process the phases of the two pulses add up with opposite signs, leading to cancellation of the shot‐to‐shot CEP fluctuations. This paper presents an overview of passive CEP stabilization schemes, starting from the basic concepts and progressing to the details of the practical implementations of the idea. The passive approach allows the generation of CEP‐controlled few‐optical‐cycle pulses covering a very broad range of parameters in terms of carrier frequency (from visible to mid‐IR), energy (up to several mJs) and repetition rate (up to hundreds of kHz) 相似文献
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Dawn T. H. Tan Anuradha M. Agarwal Lionel C. Kimerling 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2015,9(3):294-308
All‐optical signal processing on nonlinear photonic chips is a burgeoning field. These processes include light generation, optical regeneration and pulse metrology. Nonlinear photonic chips offer the benefits of small footprints, significantly larger nonlinear parameters and flexibility in generating dispersion. The nonlinear compression of optical pulses relies on a delicate balance of a material's nonlinearity and optical dispersion. Recent developments in dispersion engineering on a chip are proving to be key enablers of high‐efficiency integrated optical pulse compression. We review the recent advances made in optical pulse compression based on nonlinear photonic chips, as well as the future outlook and challenges that remain to be solved.
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Shunchong Wang Minjie Zhan Gang Wang Hongwen Xuan Wei Zhang Chunjun Liu Chunhua Xu Yu Liu Zhiyi Wei Xiaolong Chen 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2013,7(5):831-838
Nonlinear optical (NLO) frequency conversion is commonly used for generating midinfrared (MIR) lasers that offer light sources for a variety of applications. However, the low laser damage thresholds of NLO crystals used so far seriously limit the output power of MIR lasers. Here, a new nonlinear material 4H‐SiC is demonstrated for producing MIR laser. Broadband MIR radiation ranging from 3.90 to 5.60 μm is generated in 4H‐SiC by phase‐matched difference‐frequency generation for the first time. The results may open a door to practically utilize wide‐bandgap semiconductors with high laser damage thresholds as NLO materials for high power output of MIR lasers. 相似文献
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C. Szwaj G.-L. Oppo A. Gatti L.A. Lugiato 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2000,10(3):433-448
Quantum images, that is inhomogeneous field distributions purely generated by quantum fluctuations, persist when passing from
the degenerate to the non-degenerate case of optical parametric oscillators (OPO). Below the threshold for parametric oscillation
where the near-field distributions are homogeneous both in intensity and phase, appropriate spatial correlation functions
anticipate the transverse spatial pattern that appears above threshold. In particular, the angular dependence of the far field
spatial correlation function is able to reveal the travelling-wave nature of the phase pattern above threshold typical of
nondegenerate OPOs. Cross-correlation functions between signal and idler intensities show clear evidence of the non-classical
nature of the output light.
Received 8 October 1999 相似文献
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Valeriy Badikov Dmitrii Badikov Galina Shevyrdyaeva Aleksey Tyazhev Georgi Marchev Vladimir Panyutin Valentin Petrov Albert Kwasniewski 《固体物理学:研究快报》2011,5(1):31-33
Biaxial BaGa4S7 and BaGa4Se7 crystals transparent in the mid‐IR have been grown by the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique in sufficiently large sizes and with good optical quality to measure the refractive indices and analyze phase‐matching properties. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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Duc Thien Trinh Vasyl Shynkar Ady Arie Yan Sheng Wieslaw Krolikowski Joseph Zyss 《Laser \u0026amp; Photonics Reviews》2015,9(2):214-223
The ferroelectric domain structures of periodically poled KTiOPO4 and two‐dimensional short range ordered poled LiNbO3 crystals are determined non‐invasively by interferometric measurements of the electro‐optically induced phase retardation. Owing to the sign reversal of the electro‐optical coefficients upon domain inversion, a π phase shift is observed for the inverted domains. The microscopic setup provides diffraction‐limited spatial resolution allowing us to reveal the nonlinear and electro‐optical modulation patterns in ferroelectric crystals in a non‐destructive manner and to determine the poling period, duty cycle and short‐range order as well as detect local defects in the domain structure. Conversely, knowing the ferroelectric domain structure, one can use electro‐optical microscopy so as to infer the distribution of the electric field therein.
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The effects of pump phase modulation on noise characteristics of
fiber optical parametric amplifiers
M. Gao C. Jiang W. Hu J. Wang H. Ren 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2006,40(3):431-436
This paper investigates the effects of pump phase
modulation (PM) on the noise characteristics of fiber optical parametric
amplifiers (FOPAs) theoretically. The results show that the effect of the
pump PM on the noise of FOPAs can be diminished by adjusting the structural
parameters of amplifiers properly. The parameters of the pump phase
modulation are optimized with several methods to reduce the noise of FOPAs. 相似文献
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A. Andreoni M. Bondani G.M. D'Ariano M.G.A. Paris 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,13(3):415-421
We propose a novel scheme for the joint generation of two squeezed beams at arbitrary frequencies ω
1 and ω
2. The scheme consists of two successive steps, both involving nonlinear interactions in χ(2) crystals. The dynamics of the setup is analyzed both quantum mechanically and classically within the parametric approximation.
An experimental implementation involving the fundamental and the harmonics of a Nd:YAG laser pulse, and β-BaB
2
O
4 nonlinear crystals is suggested.
Received 17 May 2000 and Received in final form 9 October 2000 相似文献