A femtosecond LBO optical parametric oscillator(OPO)with widely adjustable repetition rate by fractionally decrement of the cavity length is demonstrated.The repetition rate of 755 MHz to 1.43 GHz at an interval of 75...A femtosecond LBO optical parametric oscillator(OPO)with widely adjustable repetition rate by fractionally decrement of the cavity length is demonstrated.The repetition rate of 755 MHz to 1.43 GHz at an interval of 75.5 MHz is realized,which is 10 to 19 times that of the pump laser.The properties of output signal at 750 nm at different repetition rates are studied.The power of signal decreases with increasing the repetition rate.The maximum power of 194 mW at the repetition rate of 755 MHz and the minimum power of 22 mW at repetition rate of 1.43 GHz for the signal at 750 nm are obtained for the pump power of 3 W.展开更多
A high efficiency compact Yb:KGW regenerative amplifier using an all-fiber laser seed source was comprehensively studied.With thermal lensing effect compensated by the cavity design,the compressed pulses with energy o...A high efficiency compact Yb:KGW regenerative amplifier using an all-fiber laser seed source was comprehensively studied.With thermal lensing effect compensated by the cavity design,the compressed pulses with energy of 1 mJ at 1 kHz and 0.4 mJ at 10 kHz in sub-400-fs pulse duration using chirped fiber Bragg grating(CFBG)stretcher were demonstrated.A modified Frantz-Nodvik equation was developed to emulate the dynamic behavior of the regenerative amplifier.The simulation results were in good agreement with the experiment.Numerical simulations and experimental results show that the scheme can be scalable to higher energy of multi-mJ,sub-300 fs pulses.展开更多
We demonstrate a high power,widely tunable femtosecond MgO-doped periodically poled lithium niobate(MgO:PPLN)optical parametric oscillator(OPO)at 151 MHz,pumped by a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser.With a maximum p...We demonstrate a high power,widely tunable femtosecond MgO-doped periodically poled lithium niobate(MgO:PPLN)optical parametric oscillator(OPO)at 151 MHz,pumped by a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser.With a maximum pump power of 7 W,the OPO is capable of delivering as high as 2.2 W of the signal centered around 1500 nm with tunable signal spectrum ranges of 1377 nm-1730 nm at an extraction efficiency of 31.4%,which exhibits a long-term passive power stability better than 0.71%rms over 4 h.The maximum idler bandwidths of 185 nm at 3613 nm are obtained across the idler tuning ranges of 2539 nm-4191 nm.By compensating intracavity dispersion,the signal has the shortest pulse duration of 170 fs at 1428 nm.展开更多
We report on an idler-resonant femtosecond optical parametrical oscillator(OPO)based on BiB_(3)O_(6)(BiBO)crystal,synchronously pumped by a frequency-doubled,mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at 515 nm.The idler wavelengths of...We report on an idler-resonant femtosecond optical parametrical oscillator(OPO)based on BiB_(3)O_(6)(BiBO)crystal,synchronously pumped by a frequency-doubled,mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at 515 nm.The idler wavelengths of OPO can be tuned from 1100 nm to 1540 nm.At a repetition rate of 75.5 MHz,the OPO generates as much as 400 mW of idler power with 3.1 W of pump power,the corresponding pulse duration is 80 fs,which is 1.04 times of Fourier transform-limited(FTL)pulse duration at 1305 nm.In addition,the OPO exhibits excellent beam quality with M^(2)<1.8 at 1150 nm.To the best of our knowledge,this is the first idler-resonant femtosecond OPO pumped by 515 nm.展开更多
We demonstrated a nonlinear temporal filter based on the self-diffraction(SD)process.Temporal contrast enhancement,angular dispersion and spectrum broadening properties of the SD process are investigated in experiment...We demonstrated a nonlinear temporal filter based on the self-diffraction(SD)process.Temporal contrast enhancement,angular dispersion and spectrum broadening properties of the SD process are investigated in experiment and simulation.Driven by spectral phase well compensated laser pulses with bandwidth of 28 nm,the filter produced clean pulses with a temporal contrast higher than 10^(10) and excellent spatial profile,the spectrum of which was smoothed and broadened to 64 nm.After implementing this filter into a home-made 30 TW Ti:sapphire amplifier,temporal contrast of the amplified pulses was enhanced to 10^(10) within the time scale of−400 ps.展开更多
We demonstrate a harmonically pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator(OPO)laser using a frequency-doubled mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at a repetition rate of 75.5 MHz as the pump laser.Based on a bismuth borate ...We demonstrate a harmonically pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator(OPO)laser using a frequency-doubled mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at a repetition rate of 75.5 MHz as the pump laser.Based on a bismuth borate nonlinear crystal,repetition rates up to 1.13 GHz are realized,which is 15 times that of the pump laser.The signal wavelength is tunable from 700 nm to 887 nm.The maximum power of the signal is 207 m W at the central wavelength of 750 nm and the shortest pulse duration is 117 fs at 780 nm.The beam quality(M^2 factor)in the horizontal and vertical directions of the output beam are 1.077 and 1.141,respectively.展开更多
We demonstrate nonlinear pulse compression of an 8 k Hz Nd:YVO4 picosecond laser using the multi-pass-cell(MPC) technique with fused silica as the nonlinear medium. The pulse duration is compressed from 12.5 ps to 601...We demonstrate nonlinear pulse compression of an 8 k Hz Nd:YVO4 picosecond laser using the multi-pass-cell(MPC) technique with fused silica as the nonlinear medium. The pulse duration is compressed from 12.5 ps to 601 fs, corresponding to a pulse shortening factor of 20.8. The output pulse energy is 154 μJ with an efficiency of 74.5%. To the best of our knowledge,this is the highest pulse compression ratio achieved in a single-stage MPC with bulk material as the nonlinear medium. The laser power stability and the beam quality(M2) before and after the MPC are also experimentally studied. Both the laser power stability and the beam quality are barely deteriorated by the MPC device.展开更多
We report on a high-power diode-pumped Yb∶KG(WO_(4))_(2)(Yb:KGW) mode-locked laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror(SESAM). For 32.7 W of incident pump power, we generate 261 fs pulses with the maximum ...We report on a high-power diode-pumped Yb∶KG(WO_(4))_(2)(Yb:KGW) mode-locked laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror(SESAM). For 32.7 W of incident pump power, we generate 261 fs pulses with the maximum average output power of up to 13.0 W and spectrum centered around 1039 nm at 68.4 MHz, corresponding to 190 n J of single pulse energy and0.72 MW of peak power. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is 39.8%, and the slope efficiency is 64.4%. The Yb:KGW laser exhibits a power stability better than 0.543% of the root-mean-square in 2 h.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant Nos 2017YFC0110301 and 2017YFB0405202the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 91850209,11774410 and 61575217+2 种基金the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No 2018007)the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(XDB16030200)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS(KJZD-EW-L11-03)
文摘A femtosecond LBO optical parametric oscillator(OPO)with widely adjustable repetition rate by fractionally decrement of the cavity length is demonstrated.The repetition rate of 755 MHz to 1.43 GHz at an interval of 75.5 MHz is realized,which is 10 to 19 times that of the pump laser.The properties of output signal at 750 nm at different repetition rates are studied.The power of signal decreases with increasing the repetition rate.The maximum power of 194 mW at the repetition rate of 755 MHz and the minimum power of 22 mW at repetition rate of 1.43 GHz for the signal at 750 nm are obtained for the pump power of 3 W.
基金Project supported by Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12034020)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61805274)+1 种基金the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFB1107201)the Synergic Extreme Condition User Facility
文摘A high efficiency compact Yb:KGW regenerative amplifier using an all-fiber laser seed source was comprehensively studied.With thermal lensing effect compensated by the cavity design,the compressed pulses with energy of 1 mJ at 1 kHz and 0.4 mJ at 10 kHz in sub-400-fs pulse duration using chirped fiber Bragg grating(CFBG)stretcher were demonstrated.A modified Frantz-Nodvik equation was developed to emulate the dynamic behavior of the regenerative amplifier.The simulation results were in good agreement with the experiment.Numerical simulations and experimental results show that the scheme can be scalable to higher energy of multi-mJ,sub-300 fs pulses.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62165012 and 61665010)the Key Research and Development Projects in Gansu Province,China(Grant No.21YFIGE300)+4 种基金Gansu Province College Industry Support Plan Project(Grant Nos.2020C-23 and 2022CYZC-59)the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province,China(Grant Nos.21JR7RE173 and 20JR5RA494)Qinzhou District Science and Technology Plan Project(Grant No.2021-SHFZG-1442)the Scientific Research Innovation Platform Construction Project of Tianshui Normal University,Gansu Province,China(Grant No.PTJ2022-06)Science and Technology Supporting Program Project of Tianshui City(Grant Nos.2022-FZJHK-8548,2019-FZJHK-9891,and 2020-FZJHK-9757).
文摘We demonstrate a high power,widely tunable femtosecond MgO-doped periodically poled lithium niobate(MgO:PPLN)optical parametric oscillator(OPO)at 151 MHz,pumped by a Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser.With a maximum pump power of 7 W,the OPO is capable of delivering as high as 2.2 W of the signal centered around 1500 nm with tunable signal spectrum ranges of 1377 nm-1730 nm at an extraction efficiency of 31.4%,which exhibits a long-term passive power stability better than 0.71%rms over 4 h.The maximum idler bandwidths of 185 nm at 3613 nm are obtained across the idler tuning ranges of 2539 nm-4191 nm.By compensating intracavity dispersion,the signal has the shortest pulse duration of 170 fs at 1428 nm.
基金Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2018B090904003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11774410 and 91850209)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB16030200).
文摘We report on an idler-resonant femtosecond optical parametrical oscillator(OPO)based on BiB_(3)O_(6)(BiBO)crystal,synchronously pumped by a frequency-doubled,mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at 515 nm.The idler wavelengths of OPO can be tuned from 1100 nm to 1540 nm.At a repetition rate of 75.5 MHz,the OPO generates as much as 400 mW of idler power with 3.1 W of pump power,the corresponding pulse duration is 80 fs,which is 1.04 times of Fourier transform-limited(FTL)pulse duration at 1305 nm.In addition,the OPO exhibits excellent beam quality with M^(2)<1.8 at 1150 nm.To the best of our knowledge,this is the first idler-resonant femtosecond OPO pumped by 515 nm.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11774410 and 91850209)the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(Grant No.XDB16030200).
文摘We demonstrated a nonlinear temporal filter based on the self-diffraction(SD)process.Temporal contrast enhancement,angular dispersion and spectrum broadening properties of the SD process are investigated in experiment and simulation.Driven by spectral phase well compensated laser pulses with bandwidth of 28 nm,the filter produced clean pulses with a temporal contrast higher than 10^(10) and excellent spatial profile,the spectrum of which was smoothed and broadened to 64 nm.After implementing this filter into a home-made 30 TW Ti:sapphire amplifier,temporal contrast of the amplified pulses was enhanced to 10^(10) within the time scale of−400 ps.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFC0110301)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91950113,91850209,11774410,and 61575219)+2 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(No.XDB23030203 XDB16030200)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS(No.KJZD-EW-L11-03)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the CAS(No.2018007)。
文摘We demonstrate a harmonically pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator(OPO)laser using a frequency-doubled mode-locked Yb:KGW laser at a repetition rate of 75.5 MHz as the pump laser.Based on a bismuth borate nonlinear crystal,repetition rates up to 1.13 GHz are realized,which is 15 times that of the pump laser.The signal wavelength is tunable from 700 nm to 887 nm.The maximum power of the signal is 207 m W at the central wavelength of 750 nm and the shortest pulse duration is 117 fs at 780 nm.The beam quality(M^2 factor)in the horizontal and vertical directions of the output beam are 1.077 and 1.141,respectively.
基金supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS (No. XDB16030200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 91850209 and 11774410)the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province (No. 2018B090904003)
文摘We demonstrate nonlinear pulse compression of an 8 k Hz Nd:YVO4 picosecond laser using the multi-pass-cell(MPC) technique with fused silica as the nonlinear medium. The pulse duration is compressed from 12.5 ps to 601 fs, corresponding to a pulse shortening factor of 20.8. The output pulse energy is 154 μJ with an efficiency of 74.5%. To the best of our knowledge,this is the highest pulse compression ratio achieved in a single-stage MPC with bulk material as the nonlinear medium. The laser power stability and the beam quality(M2) before and after the MPC are also experimentally studied. Both the laser power stability and the beam quality are barely deteriorated by the MPC device.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11774410)Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(No.XDB16030200)。
文摘We report on a high-power diode-pumped Yb∶KG(WO_(4))_(2)(Yb:KGW) mode-locked laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror(SESAM). For 32.7 W of incident pump power, we generate 261 fs pulses with the maximum average output power of up to 13.0 W and spectrum centered around 1039 nm at 68.4 MHz, corresponding to 190 n J of single pulse energy and0.72 MW of peak power. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is 39.8%, and the slope efficiency is 64.4%. The Yb:KGW laser exhibits a power stability better than 0.543% of the root-mean-square in 2 h.
