Efficient Spectral Broadening in the 100-W Average Power Regime Using Gas Filled Kagome HC-PCF and Pulse Compression
| Autor: | Frédéric Gérôme, Ursula Keller, Clara J. Saraceno, Thomas Suedmeyer, Benoit Debord, Florian Emaury, Fetah Benabid, Andreas Diebold, Debashri Ghosh |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institute of Quantum Electronics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), PHOTONIQUE (XLIM-PHOTONIQUE), XLIM (XLIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Quantum Electronics [ETH Zürich] (IQE), Department of Physics [ETH Zürich] (D-PHYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich) |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
Attosecond FOS: Physical sciences 02 engineering and technology 7. Clean energy 01 natural sciences law.invention 010309 optics Optics law 0103 physical sciences High harmonic generation ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS business.industry Pulse duration 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Laser Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Pulse (physics) Pulse compression [SPI.OPTI]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Optics / Photonic 0210 nano-technology business Ultrashort pulse Photonic-crystal fiber Physics - Optics Optics (physics.optics) |
| Zdroj: | Optics Letters Optics Letters, Optical Society of America-OSA Publishing, 2014, 39 (24), pp.6843-6846 |
| ISSN: | 0146-9592 1539-4794 |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1410.4721 |
| Popis: | We present nonlinear pulse compression of a high-power SESAM-modelocked thin-disk laser (TDL) using an Ar-filled hypocycloid-core Kagome Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fiber (HC-PCF). The output of the modelocked Yb:YAG TDL with 127 W average power, a pulse repetition rate of 7 MHz, and a pulse duration of 740 fs was spectrally broadened 16-fold while propagating in a Kagome HC-PCF containing 13 bar of static Argon gas. Subsequent compression tests performed using 8.4% of the full available power resulted in a pulse duration as short as 88 fs using the spectrally broadened output from the fiber. Compressing the full transmitted power through the fiber (118 W) could lead to a compressed output of >100 W of average power and >100 MW of peak power with an average power compression efficiency of 88%. This simple laser system with only one ultrafast laser oscillator and a simple single-pass fiber pulse compressor, generating both high peak power >100 MW and sub-100-fs pulses at megahertz repetition rate, is very interesting for many applications such as high harmonic generation and attosecond science with improved signal-to-noise performance. |
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