High-average-power, carrier-envelope phase-stable, few-cycle pulses at 21 μm from a collinear BiB_3O_6 optical parametric amplifier

Silva, F.; Bates, Philip K.; Esteban-Martín, A.; Ebrahim-Zadeh, M.; Biegert, J.

doi:10.1364/ol.37.000933

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“…Due to their simple setup and spectral versatility, they have many advantages over optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) [2][3][4]. However, they require rather high pump energies, typically provided by amplified laser systems, limiting the repetition rate to a few hundred kilohertz [5][6][7]. Recently, the repetition rate of OPAs has been pushed to the MHz range by using laser oscillators with cavity dumping [8][9][10] or fiber amplifiers [11,12].…”

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Broadly tunable femtosecond near- and mid-IR source by direct pumping of an OPA with a 417 MHz Yb:KGW oscillator

Krauth¹,

Steinmann²,

Hegenbarth³

et al. 2013

Opt. Express

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Abstract:We generate over half a watt of tunable near-IR (1380-1830 nm) and several hundred milliwatts in the mid-IR (2.4-4.2 µm) as well as milliwatt level mid-IR (4.85-9.33 µm) femtosecond radiation by pumping an optical parametric amplifier directly with a 7.4 W Yb:KGW oscillator at 41.7 MHz repetition rate. We use 5 mm PPLN and 2 mm GaSe as downconversion crystals and seed this process by a supercontinuum from a tapered fiber. The system is extremely simple and very stable and could replace more complex OPOs as tunable light sources. repetition rate tunable femtosecond pulses and broadband amplification from fiber laser pumped parametric amplifier," Opt. Express 14(11), 4765-4773 (2006). 12. C. Schriever, S. Lochbrunner, P. Krok, and E. Riedle, "Tunable pulses from below 300 to 970 nm with durations down to 14 fs based on a 2 MHz ytterbium-doped fiber system," Opt. Lett. 33(2), 192-194 (2008). Chu, "Broadband tunable optical parametric amplification from a single 50 MHz ultrafast fiber laser," Opt.

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Broadly tunable femtosecond near- and mid-IR source by direct pumping of an OPA with a 417 MHz Yb:KGW oscillator

Krauth¹,

Steinmann²,

Hegenbarth³

et al. 2013

Opt. Express

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“…High peak power pulses at 2 µm wavelength combined with the characteristic advantages of fiber lasers, such as high beam quality, compactness and the potential for maintenance-free operation, are particularly beneficial from an applications point of view and enable, for example, coherent nonlinear frequency conversion further into the mid-infrared waveband, material or medical tissue ablation, and high-intensity physics [3,[6][7][8][9][10]. Table 1 gives an overview of the current maximum peak power levels reported for the different pulse regimes of TDFA systems.…”

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High Power Diode-Seeded Fiber Amplifiers at 2 μm—From Architectures to Applications

Heidt

Richardson

2014

IEEE J. Select. Topics Quantum Electron.

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Abstract-We review recent advances in the development of high power short-and ultrashort pulsed Thulium-doped fiber amplifier (TDFA) systems seeded by semiconductor laser diodes at wavelengths around 2 µm. The diode-seeding and the master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) design allow for the construction of extremely versatile laser systems that can operate over wide ranges of peak power, pulse energy and repetition rate in the ultrashort picosecond to the long nanosecond pulsed regimes. We present a record peak power of 130 kW and pulse energy of 5 µJ in picosecond mode, while demonstrating user-defined pulse-shaping capabilities at millijoule pulse energy levels in the nanosecond regime from essentially the same amplifier system. The system architecture as well as important design and power scaling considerations are discussed in detail. Additionally, we highlight recent results in the application of these MOPA systems and their high performance TDFA stages in such diverse application areas as next generation telecommunication networks, mid-infrared supercontinuum generation and mid-infrared gas detection in hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers.

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“…BiBO was reported by Silva et al generating CEP-stable pulses at 2.1 µm [200]. Cascaded high-energy OPA-systems have nonetheless been implemented in which a second stage of parametric frequency conversion (mostly DFG) enables reaching the mid-IR spectral range at the expense of efficiency and simplicity [201,202,203].…”

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Ultrashort pulse generation in the mid-IR

Pires

Baudisch

Sánchez

et al. 2015

Progress in Quantum Electronics

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Recent developments in laser sources operating in the mid-IR (3 -8 µm), have been motivated by the numerous possibilities for both fundamental and applied research. One example is the ability to unambiguously detect pollutants and carcinogens due to the much larger oscillator strengths of their absorption features in the mid-IR spectral region compared with the visible. Broadband sources are of particular interest for spectroscopic applications since they remove the need for arduous scanning or several lasers and allow simultaneous use of multiple absorption features thus increasing the confidence level of detection. In addition, sources capable of producing ultrashort and intense mid-IR radiation are gaining relevance in attoscience and strong-field physics due to wavelength scaling of re-collision based processes. In this paper we review the state-of-the-art in sources of coherent, pulsed mid-IR radiation. First we discuss semi-conductor based sources which are compact and turnkey, but typically do not yield short pulse duration. Mid-IR laser gain material based approaches will be discussed, either for direct broadband mid-IR lasers or as narrowband pump lasers for parametric amplification in nonlinear crystals. The main part will focus on mid-IR generation and amplification based on parametric frequency conversion, enabling highest mid-IR peak power pulses. Lastly we close with an overview of nonlinear post-compression techniques, for decreasing pulse duration to the sub-2-optical-cycle regime.

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High-average-power, carrier-envelope phase-stable, few-cycle pulses at 21 μm from a collinear BiB_3O_6 optical parametric amplifier

Cited by 47 publications

References 16 publications

Broadly tunable femtosecond near- and mid-IR source by direct pumping of an OPA with a 417 MHz Yb:KGW oscillator

Broadly tunable femtosecond near- and mid-IR source by direct pumping of an OPA with a 417 MHz Yb:KGW oscillator

High Power Diode-Seeded Fiber Amplifiers at 2 μm—From Architectures to Applications

Ultrashort pulse generation in the mid-IR

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