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How to build an Er:fiberfemtosecond laser
Daniele Brida
17.02.2016
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Konstanz
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Ultrafast laser
26.03.20163
Time domain : pulse train
Frequency domain: comb
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Frequency comb laser
26.03.20164
Time domain : pulse train
Frequency domain: comb
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Mode locking
26.03.20165
Establish a precise phase relation between
the modes of the cavity
with a well defined phase -> pulses
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Mode locking: How to
26.03.20166
Solution: Nonlinearity
Kerr lens mode locking
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Ti:sapphire laser
26.03.20167
Time domain : pulse train
Frequency domain: comb
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Fiber lasers
Guided operations: the mode is confined in an optical fiber
PRO
• Virtually alignment free
• Robustness
• Weakly affected by the environment
• Stability
CONS
• Careful design (you cannot optimize it)
• (Low power)
• (dispersion managment)
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Possible Gain Media
Yb: 1030 nm
Er: 1550 nm
Tm/Ho: ~2000 nm
…
In general: rare earth ions in silica matrix
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CW vs femtosecond
CW laser
diode
Mirror
Femtosecond laser
-> short pulses
-> frequency comb
PROBLEM: dispersion
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Linear propagation of short pulses
Examples
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Er:fiber laser
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Er3+ ions as gain medium
1550 high transparency window for fused silica
True 3-level system
Lasing at 1550 requires significant population inversion!!
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Er3+ ions more details
3 level system
Lifetime of the
lasing level is fairly
long: 10 ms
Green
fluorescence
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Mode locking operations in a fiber laser
Three approaches:
- Active modulation
- Instantaneous Nonlinearity
- Ultrafast saturable absorber
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Femtosecond fiber laser 1: figure of 8
Asymmetry in the path between clockwise and counterclockwise propagation
The isolator is the lossy component
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Femtosecond fiber laser 2: Polarization Rotation
Nonlinearity: XPS
Typically it requires outcoupling to free space within the oscillator
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Fiber GVD1.55 μm (ps2/km) Length (mm)
F1 -19.7 528
F2 -4.76 2340
F3 0.9 393
EDF 19 680
Femtosecond fiber laser 2: Polarization Rotation
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Femtosecond fiber laser 3: Saturable Absorber
Saturable
Absorber
Mirror
SAM works as a mirror only if the optical power in the cavity is sufficiently high
It has to show a dynamical behavior and recover the “lossy” condition really quickly
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Femtosecond fiber laser 3: Saturable absorber
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Germanium Saturable Absorber Mirror
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InGaAs Saturable Absorber Mirror
Direct gap semiconductor
GaAs at the center of the Brillouin zone
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InGaAs Saturable Absorber Mirror
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Solitonic Oscillator
Solitonic propagation condition
Where
The pulse temporal profile is:
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Solitonic Oscillator
Transform Limit pulse duration of approximately 300 fs
Output power 2/3 mW
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Femtosecond fiber laser 3: Saturable absorber
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Femtosecond fiber laser 3: Saturable absorber
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Femtosecond fiber laser: polarization
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Discussion
Noise performances (Shot noise)
Environmental robustness
Optimization
Pulse energy
VS
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Femtosecond Er:Fiber-Amplifier
Single pass amplifier
2.5 m long gain medium (Er:PM-Fiber) with normal dispersion
980 nm pump light injected from both sides (each with 700 mW)
Amplification up to 330 mW, → Pin/Pout ≈ 500
Spectral broadening due to SPM (Self Phase Modulation) and other
nonlinear effects in EDF and collimator fiber
Recompression of the pulse in a silicon prism compressor
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Nonlinear amplifier: dispersion managment
26.03.201631
Optimization of the nonlinearity during
amplification by a pre-stretching fiber
Also the pump diode coupling is a degree of freedom
1 co-propagating, 1 counterpropagating to optimize the
inversion profile in the EDF
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Amplifier
Bandwidth Dl = 70 nm
Pulse duration TFWHM = 130 fs
Degree of Polarisation > 98%
330 mW before compressor and
305 mW after compressor
Pulse energy: 8 nJ
Almost perfect synchronisation possible (43 as)
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General Setup
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Ph
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tFWHM
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Wavelength (nm) Wavelength (nm)
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Oscillator Spectrum Amplifier Spectrum Reconstructed FROG
attosecond timing jitter:F. Adler, et al.,
Opt. Lett. 32, 3504 (2007)
tailored spectra:A. Sell, G. Krauss et al.,
Opt. Express 17, 1070 (2009)
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Variable Pulse Compression
Compression in silicon prism sequence
variable prechirp
Pumping of highly nonlinear fiber
tunability of dispersive wave and soliton
Collimation with off-axis parabolic mirror
no chromatic aberration
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Nonlinear Pulse Propagation
Quantitative modeling without free parameters:
Gain/absorption
Dispersion up to 6th order
(measured via white-light
interferometry)
Instantaneous Kerr nonlinearity
Retarded Raman effect
Amplitude and phase spectra
of pump (measured via FROG)
Central design tool
with predictive power
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Tailored Spectra in Highly Nonlinear Fibers I
Two-stage process
1st step: soliton compression in standard telecom fiber
(l ≈ 10 cm, ØCore = 10.5 µm)
Spectrum broadens and pulse is compressed to 14 fs
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Tailored Spectra in Highly Nonlinear Fibers II
2nd step: four-photon interactions in HNF (ØCore = 4 µm)
Spectrum splits into two components:
Soliton
Dispersive wave
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Tuning via Prechirp
Control of nonlinear frequency shift: prechirp of pump
(determines minimum pulse duration before HNF)
Pout > 30 mW (dispersive wave) and > 50 mW (soliton)
Spectral range covered: 800 nm to 2400 nm
time evolution in precompression fiber
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Ultrabroad Spectra I
Optimized dispersion profiles for
ultrabroadband and unstructured spectra
Quantitative agreement between
simulation and experiment
Maximum spectral width in
dispersive wave: Dl = 580 nm
Pout = 23 mW
Compression in
glass prism compressor
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7.8 fs Dispersive Wave
Retrieved pulse duration: tp = 7.8 fs two optical cycles
Bandwidth limit: 7.0 fs
Good agreement between measured and retrieved spectrum
Perfect match between measured and calculated autocorrelation
A. Sell, et al. Opt. Express 17, 1070 (2009)
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Few-Cycle Soliton from HNF 2
Retrieved pulse duration: tp = 31 fs
5 optical cycles
Fourier limit: 23 fs
Average output power: 55 mW
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Single-Cycle Setup
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Single-Cycle Pulse Synthesis
Large delay times Dt:
second-order auto- and
cross-correlations
Decreasing Dt: Cross- correlation shifts towards center
Amplitude of central fringe increases
strongly
Maximum amplitude
for Dt = 0
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Single-Cycle Pulse Characterization
Separate FROG analysis of spectral amplitude and phase of soliton and dispersive
wave
Amplitude ratio: linear spectrum
Two missing parameters left for total characterization:
Linear slope (time delay Dt)
Relative phase Dj between dispersive wave and soliton
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Single-Cycle Pulses: Results
Determination of phase spectrum from
FROG traces and least-square fit of Dj
and Dt to second-order autocorrelation
Temporal amplitude and phase via
Fourier transform
Retrieved pulse
duration: tp = 4.3 fs
Pulse energy: Ep = 1 nJ
Single cycle of light in the
telecom wavelength regime
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Carrier-Envelope Phase Control
rep1/T f
D2
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repf
repCEOn nfff
• frequency spectrum
consists of equidistant
lines with CEO-frequency
offset
• slippage of carrier
envelope phase due to
group and phase velocity
mismatch
• control of CEO-frequency
essential for:
• nonlinear physics
• metrology
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Passive CEP Stabilization: Input Spectra
Idea: generation of phase-stable pulses at 1550 nm via DFG,from ultrabroadband HNF spectrum
goal: seed source with carrier-envelope offset frequency set to zero and subsequent amplification
CEOf
0CEO frepf
passive phase locking of fs-Er:fiber technology at full
repetition rate of 40 MHz
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Second
Harmonic
0, j 20, 2 j + /2
Self Phase
Modulation
0, j 0, j + /2
OPA
Pump
Signal s, j s Signal s, j sAmplification does not affect CEP
Difference
Frequency
1, j 1
2, j 2
1 - 2, j 1 - j 2 - /2
white light generation in a
sapphire plate
supercontinuum by a hollow
fiber
CEP and nonlinear processes
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Difference Frequency Generation
DF 1 2
jDF j 1 j 2
1
2
DF = 1- 2
(2)
if fields are
phase-locked:j 1 = j 2 + Δj j DF = Δj (const.)
Difference-frequency generation (DFG) allows:
manipulation of the CEP
generation of MIR light
DFG between two pulses carrying the same CEP leads to automatic
phase-stabilization of the DF pulse
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• separation of dispersive wave and soliton for compression
• difference frequency generation in PPLN
General Setup
• generation of ultrabroad
spectrum in HNF
• modulation of spectrum
via chirp of the seed
pulse
≙ 1550 nm
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• DFG tunable from
1400 nm – 1600 nm
• broadband DFG output
• complete background
suppression with two 1550 nm
Bragg-mirrors
Phase-locked Pulses at 1550 nm
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Reamplification of Phaselocked Seed
6 synchronized output ports after preamp
high power fiber amplifiers for extreme nonlinear optics
frequency comb applications
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Output Performance of Amplifiers
average power P = 2.1 mW @ each port after preamplifier
average power P = 330 mW after main amplifier
pulse duration tp = 115 fs after prism compressor
inherently phase-locked 8 nJ pulses at full 40 MHz repetition rate
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Characterization of Absolute Phase Stability
2)2/2)(sin()sin( jj tt
spectrum modulated by:
CEP stablestationary
inteference fringes
)sin(1 j
octave spanning
spectrum
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Long-term Stability of Passive Phase Lock
• acquisition of 1000 spectra over 8 s
• RMS of phase amounts to 0.219 rad
• excellent long-term stability
for time-domain applications
• integration time of 4 ms implies
average over 160,000 pulses
• good fringe visibility indicates
extremely good short-term stability
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Seeding Yb and Tm amplifiers
Seed high power fiber laser starting with a compact
Er:fiber system.
Problem: supercontinuum coherence at the output of
standard PCFs
Yb
1064 nm
Power scalable up to a
multiW regime
Mature technology
Tm
1950 nm
Broad gain bandwidth
Particularly promising
for future application
Dispersive wave Soliton
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Supercontinuum coherence
Interference
between the SCs
generated by two
distinct branches
of the system
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First proof of Tm:amplifier
10 MHz
Tm:amplifer
9 W pump
power
Amplification at 1950
nm with 2.46 W
output average power
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High repetition rate for maximum sensitivity
Er:fiber femtosecond laser seeding a high power Yb:fiber amplifier
Multibranch design for advanced ultrafast applications
60 W total output power
at 10 MHz repetition rate
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Noise Performance and Long-Term Stability
peak-to-peak fluctuation: < ± 0.3% during 72 h of operation at full power
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White Light Generation
• 2.5 W from Yb:fiber amplifier( less than 5% of theavailable power at 10 MHz! )
• Focused into 3 mm YAG
2 octave spanning
spectrum0.4 0.6 0.8 1.2 1.4 1.6
0.0
0.5
1.0
Inte
nsity (
norm
.)
Wavelength (µm)