基于孤子自压缩的高功率少周期2 μm激光产生(特邀)

High-power, few-cycle 2 μm laser pulse generation based on soliton self-compression (Invited)

  • 摘要: 具有少周期量级脉冲宽度的高功率2 μm波段超快激光在非线性频率变换、激光光谱学以及医疗等领域有着重要且广泛的应用。利用高功率2 μm超快光源驱动孤子自压缩是产生高功率少周期2 μm激光的一种有效方法。文中利用自建的2 μm Ho:YAG锁模碟片振荡器作为种子源,在大模场光子晶体光纤中进行光谱展宽并实现孤子自压缩,最终获得了平均功率为10.2 W、脉冲宽度为3个光学周期的2 μm激光输出。实验采用FROG对输出脉冲的宽度和光谱进行测量,并与波长计测量的光谱以及理论模拟的结果进行了比较,验证了实验结果的准确性。

     

    Abstract: High-power 2 μm lasers with few-cycle pulse duration have enabled diverse and important applications ranging from nonlinear frequency conversion, laser spectroscopy to medicine. Soliton self-compression is an effective scheme to deliver such pulses, which is driven by a high-power 2 μm laser source with relatively longer pulse duration. In this work, the soliton self-compression process was realized in a large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber(PCF) driven by a mode-locked Ho:YAG thin-disk oscillator, which delivered three-cycle laser pulses at the center wavelength of 2 μm with an average power of 10.2 W. The pulse duration and spectrum of the pulses were measured by a frequency-resolved optical gating(FROG) apparatus, matching well with the simulation results.

     

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