Demonstration of phase matching bandwidth extension in cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification

Author

Siddiqui, Aleem ; Hong, Kyung-Han ; Moses, Jeffrey ; Cox, Jonathan ; Kärtner, Franz X.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol. (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Demonstration of phase matching bandwidth extension in cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification is reported. The pump source is a Yb fiber chirped-pulse amplifier system producing 500 fs pulses centred at 1034 nm with up to 4 W of average power. The signal source is an Er-doped fiber laser/amplifier centred at 1560 nm with 20 nm BW and 2mW of average power. The signal is stretched in 100 m of fiber to attain a 10 ps duration. Both laser sources have a 78-MHz repetition rate and are synchronized via electronic feedback. The enhancement cavity containing a 20 mm long PPLN and a 10% output coupler is locked to the pump source via the Hansch-Couillard locking scheme.

Keywords

chirp modulation; erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser feedback; laser mode locking; lithium compounds; optical fibre amplifiers; optical fibre couplers; optical parametric amplifiers; optical phase matching; optical pumping; ytterbium; Hansch-Couillard locking scheme; LiNbO₃; PPLN; cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification; electronic feedback; fiber chirped-pulse amplifier system; fiber laser; laser sources; output coupler; periodically poled lithium niobate; phase matching bandwidth extension; pump source; size 100 m; size 20 mm; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pumping; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942801

Filename

5942801