High power high repetition rate femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser frequency comb (invited)

Sun Jinghua; Sun Kexiong; Lin Zhifang; Sun Jifen; Jin Lu; Xu Yongzhao

doi:10.3788/IRLA201948.0103001

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Sun Jinghua, Sun Kexiong, Lin Zhifang, Sun Jifen, Jin Lu, Xu Yongzhao. High power high repetition rate femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser frequency comb (invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2019, 48(1): 103001-0103001(9). doi: 10.3788/IRLA201948.0103001

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Sun Jinghua, Sun Kexiong, Lin Zhifang, Sun Jifen, Jin Lu, Xu Yongzhao. High power high repetition rate femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser frequency comb (invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2019, 48(1): 103001-0103001(9). doi: 10.3788/IRLA201948.0103001

High power high repetition rate femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser frequency comb (invited)

doi: 10.3788/IRLA201948.0103001

1.
School of Electronic Engineering and Intelligentization,Dongguan University of Technology,Dongguan 523808,China;
2.
School of Physics,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China;
3.
Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences,Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh EH14 4AS,UK

Received Date: 2018-08-15
Rev Recd Date: 2018-09-16
Publish Date: 2019-01-25

Abstract

Femtosecond optical frequency combs have introduced revolutionary promotions to precision optical spectroscopy and metrology, and have been hot topics of laser technologies and applications for two decades. In this article, the affects of intracavity dispersion and mode-locking mechanism on carrier-envelope phase slip frequency (fCEO) of femtosecond laser pulse trains were researched based on a femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 250 MHz repetition rate. By optimizing the intracavity dispersion, pumping power, and detection methods, 49 dB signal-noise-ratio fCEO beat signal was obtained which then was stabilized it to a stability of 3.210-10 in 1 second, and a stability of 3.410-13 (1 s) of frep was also achieved. In addition, the effects of pulse chirping on the output pulse duration of a fiber amplifier was researched based on a piece of large-mode-area photonic crystal Yb doped fiber. Under 60 W of pumping power from a laser diode at 976 nm wavelength, 23 W average output power from the amplifier with 66 fs pulse duration and 250 MHz repetition rate was achieved when the seed pulses were carring -3.8104 fs2 pre-chirping dispersion.
- optical frequency comb,
- photonic crystal fiber amplifier,
- supercontinuum generation,
- frequency locking

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[29]	Luo D, Liu Y, Gu C, et al. High-power Yb-fiber comb based on pre-chirped-management self-similar amplification[J]. Appl Phys Lett, 2018, 112:061106.
[30]	Zhou Shian, Lyuba Kuznetsova, Chong Andy, et al. Compensation of nonlinear phase shifts with third-order dispersion in short-pulse fiber amplifiers[J]. Opt Express, 2005, 13:4869-4877.
[31]	Lyuba Kuznetsova, Frank W Wise. Scaling of femtosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers to tens of microjoule pulse energy via nonlinear chirped pulse amplification[J]. Opt Lett, 2007, 32:2671-2673.
[32]	Hung-Wen Chen, JinKang Lim, Shu-Wei Huang et al. Optimization of femtosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers for high-quality pulse compression[J]. Opt Express, 2012, 20:28672-28682.
[33]	Schibli T R, Hartl I, Yost D C, et al. Optical frequency comb with submillihertz linewidth and more than 10 W average power[J]. Nature Photon, 2008, 2:355-359.

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High power high repetition rate femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser frequency comb (invited)

1. School of Electronic Engineering and Intelligentization,Dongguan University of Technology,Dongguan 523808,China;

2. School of Physics,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China;

3. Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences,Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh EH14 4AS,UK

Received Date: 2018-08-15

Rev Recd Date: 2018-09-16

Publish Date: 2019-01-25

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Abstract: Femtosecond optical frequency combs have introduced revolutionary promotions to precision optical spectroscopy and metrology, and have been hot topics of laser technologies and applications for two decades. In this article, the affects of intracavity dispersion and mode-locking mechanism on carrier-envelope phase slip frequency (fCEO) of femtosecond laser pulse trains were researched based on a femtosecond Ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 250 MHz repetition rate. By optimizing the intracavity dispersion, pumping power, and detection methods, 49 dB signal-noise-ratio fCEO beat signal was obtained which then was stabilized it to a stability of 3.210-10 in 1 second, and a stability of 3.410-13 (1 s) of frep was also achieved. In addition, the effects of pulse chirping on the output pulse duration of a fiber amplifier was researched based on a piece of large-mode-area photonic crystal Yb doped fiber. Under 60 W of pumping power from a laser diode at 976 nm wavelength, 23 W average output power from the amplifier with 66 fs pulse duration and 250 MHz repetition rate was achieved when the seed pulses were carring -3.8104 fs2 pre-chirping dispersion.

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[1]	Eckstein J N, Ferguson A I, Hnsch T W. High-resolution two-photon spectroscopy with picosecond light pulses[J]. Phys Rev Lett, 1978, 40:847.
[2]	Ell R, Morgner U, Krtner F X, et al. Generation of 5-fs pulses and octave-spanning spectra directly from a Ti:sapphire laser[J]. Opt Lett, 2011, 26:373.
[3]	Ranka J K, Winder R S, Stentz A. J. Visible continuum generation in air-silica microstructure optical fibers with anomalous dispersion at 800 nm[J]. Opt Lett, 2000, 25:25-27.
[4]	Jones D J, Diddams S A, Ranka J K, et al. Carrier-envelope phase control of femtosecond mode-locked lasers and direct optical frequency synthesis[J]. Science, 2000, 288:635.
[5]	Telle H R, Steinmeyer G, Dunlop A E, Stenger J, Sutter D. H, Keller U. Carrier-envelope offset phase control:A novel concept for absolute optical frequency measurement and ultrashort pulse generation[J]. Appl Phys B, 1999, 69:327.
[6]	Diddams S A. The evolving optical frequency comb[J]. JOSA B, 2010, 27:B51-B62.
[7]	Ye J, Cundiff S T. Femtosecond optical Frequency Comb Technology:Principle, Operation and Application[M] Berlin:Springer, 2005.
[8]	Diddams S A, Jones D J, Ye J, et al. Direct link between microwave and optical frequencies with a 300 THz femtosecond laser comb[J]. Phys Rev Let, 2000, 5102:84.
[9]	Udem Th, Holzwarth R, Hnsch T W. Optical frequency metrology[J]. Nature, 2002, 233:416.
[10]	Holzwarth R, Udem Th, Hnsch T W, et al. Optical frequency synthesizer for precision spectroscopy[J]. Phys Rev Let, 2000, 85:2264-2275.
[11]	Ma L S, Bi Z, Bartels A, L, et al. Optical frequency synthesis and comparison with uncertainty at the 10-19 level[J]. Science, 2004, 303:1843-1848.
[12]	Takamoto M, Hong F L, Higashi R, et al. An optical lattice clock[J]. Nature, 2005, 435:321-324.
[13]	Rosenband T, Hume D B, Schmidt P O, et al. Frequency ratio of Al+ and Hg+ single-ion optical clocks; metrology at the 17th Decimal Place[J]. Science, 2008, 319:1808-1812.
[14]	Bloom B J, Nicholson T L, Williams J R, et al. An optical lattice clock with accuracy and stability at the 10-18 level[J]. Nature, 2014, 506:71.
[15]	Blatt S, Ludlow A D, Campbell G K, et al. New limits on coupling of fundamental constants to gravity using 87 Sr optical lattice clock[J]. Phys Rev Lett, 2008, 100:140801.
[16]	Kolkowitz S, Pikovski I, Langellier N, et al. Gravitational wave detection with optical lattice atomic clocks[J]. Phys Rev D, 2016, 94:124043.
[17]	Julien Mandon, Guy Guelachvili, Nathalie Picqu. Fourier transform spectroscopy with a laser frequency comb[J]. Nature Photon, 2009, 3:99.
[18]	Joohyung Lee, Young Jin Kim, Keunwoo Lee, et al. Time-of-flight measurement with femtosecond light pulses[J]. Nature Photon, 2010, 4:716.
[19]	Yoshiaki Nakajima, Kaoru Minoshima. Highly stabilized optical frequency comb interferometer with a long fiber-based reference path towards arbitrary distance measurement[J]. Opt Express, 2015, 23:25979.
[20]	van den Berg S A, Persijn S T, Kok G J P, et al. Many-wavelength interferometry with thousands of lasers for absolute distance measurement[J]. Phys Rev Lett, 2012, 108:183901.
[21]	Zhao Xin, Hu Guoqing, Zhao Bofeng, et al. Picometer-resolution dual-comb spectroscopy with a free-running fiber laser[J]. Opt Express, 2016, 24:21833.
[22]	Coddington I, Swann W C, Nenadovic L, et al. Rapid and precise absolute distance measurements at long range[J]. Nature Photon, 2009, 3:351-356.
[23]	Trocha P, Karpov M, Ganin D, et al. Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs[J]. Science, 2018, 359:887.
[24]	Kato T, Uchida M, Minoshima K. Non-scanning three-dimensional imaging using spectral interferometry with chirped frequency comb[C]//Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2016:SW1H.4.
[25]	Liu T A, Newbury N R, Coddington I. Sub-micron absolute distance measurements in sub-millisecond times with dual free-running femtosecond Er fiber-lasers[J]. Opt Express, 2011, 19:18501.
[26]	Danzmann K, the LISA study team. LISA:laser interferometer space antenna for gravitational wave measurements[J]. Class Quantum Grav, 1996, 13:A247-A250.
[27]	Tapley B D, Bettadpur S, Ries J C, et al. GRACE measurements of mass variability in the Earth system[J]. Science, 2004, 305:503-505.
[28]	Kurita T, Yoshida H, Kawashima T, et al. Generation of sub-7-cycle optical pulses from a mode-locked ytterbium-doped single-mode fiber oscillator pumped by polarization-combined 915nm laser diodes[J]. Opt Lett, 2012, 37:3972-3974.
[29]	Luo D, Liu Y, Gu C, et al. High-power Yb-fiber comb based on pre-chirped-management self-similar amplification[J]. Appl Phys Lett, 2018, 112:061106.
[30]	Zhou Shian, Lyuba Kuznetsova, Chong Andy, et al. Compensation of nonlinear phase shifts with third-order dispersion in short-pulse fiber amplifiers[J]. Opt Express, 2005, 13:4869-4877.
[31]	Lyuba Kuznetsova, Frank W Wise. Scaling of femtosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers to tens of microjoule pulse energy via nonlinear chirped pulse amplification[J]. Opt Lett, 2007, 32:2671-2673.
[32]	Hung-Wen Chen, JinKang Lim, Shu-Wei Huang et al. Optimization of femtosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers for high-quality pulse compression[J]. Opt Express, 2012, 20:28672-28682.
[33]	Schibli T R, Hartl I, Yost D C, et al. Optical frequency comb with submillihertz linewidth and more than 10 W average power[J]. Nature Photon, 2008, 2:355-359.

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