透射式SESAM实现掺Yb3+光纤激光器被动调Q锁模

锁模光纤激光器具有体积小、性能稳定及模式好等优点，日益受到关注。利用一种新型的透过式半导体可饱和吸收镜，实现双包层掺Yb^3＋光纤激光器调Q锁模脉冲激光输出。得到的脉冲调Q包络半高宽约500ns，重复频率110kHz，平均输出功率45mW，锁模脉冲重复频率26．7MHz。锁模光路比反射式吸收镜更简单，易于调节，为进一步引入色散补偿元件进行飞秒脉冲的实验研究奠定了基础。     

KGd（WO4）2为基质的激光晶体被动锁模研究现状及前景

本文讨论了大功率飞秒激光器对增盆介质的要求,根据各种KGW为基质的激光材料的光谱学以及热学参数,重点分析了KGW激光晶体在获得大功率飞秒脉冲上的优势,给出了采用此类材料进行锁模实验与半导体可饱和吸收镜之间的关系。同时通过对目前KGW的飞秒实验报道的综述,探讨丁影响此类材料飞秒锁模的一些关键因素,综述了以KGW为基质的激光晶体被动锁模的大功率激光器的研究进展与发展潜力。     

Relaxation Oscillations and Pulse Stability in Harmonically Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers

In this paper, we discuss pulse dynamics in harmonically mode-locked semiconductor lasers and present the conditions necessary for stability. In a laser mode-locked at the Nth harmonic, the pulse energy fluctuations have (N+1) different modes of relaxation oscillations. Different modes correspond to different patterns for the energy fluctuations in the N different pulses inside the laser cavity. In the higher order relaxation oscillation modes, the energy fluctuations are negatively correlated in different pulses inside the laser cavity, and these modes can cause instability. Gain saturation on time scales of the order of the pulse width (dynamic gain saturation) stabilizes pulse energy fluctuations with respect to relaxation oscillations. The precise limits on the stable operating regime depend on the gain dynamics at both slow and fast time scales. We also discuss harmonic mode-locking in the presence of a slow saturable absorber. Dynamic loss saturation in a saturable absorber can work against dynamic gain saturation and limit the stability range for harmonic mode-locking.     

Environmentally Stable, High Pulse Energy Yb-Doped Large-Mode-Area Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser Operating in the Soliton-Like Regime

A high pulse energy passively mode-locking fiber laser operating in the soliton-like regime is demonstrated. The laser is based on a linear cavity design. A segment of Yb-doped single-polarization large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber serves as the gain medium, and the self-starting mode-locking is achieved by a high contrast semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The laser directly generates 600-fs pulses with 900 mW of average power at a repetition rate of 47.3 MHz, corresponding to a single pulse energy of 19 nJ. Furthermore, this fiber laser is directly used for pumping ZnTe to generate broadband terahertz radiation, resulting in a compact terahertz source.     

Mode-Locked Bi-Doped All-Fiber Laser With Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating

We demonstrate a bi-doped fiber laser with dispersion compensation provided by a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating. Reliable self-starting mode-locking was achieved by using an InGaAsN semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. The all-fiber laser generated short optical pulses with a duration of 1.9 ps at ~ 1165 nm. The large anomalous dispersion of the fiber grating ensured operation in the soliton pulse regime. This in turn enabled us to increase the repetition rate of the output pulse train up to 100.6 MHz via harmonic mode-locking.     

Supermodes of high-repetition-rate passively mode-lockedsemiconductor lasers

We present a steady-state analysis of high-repetition-rate passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers. The analysis includes effects of amplitude-to-phase coupling in both gain and absorber sections. A many-mode eigenvalue approach is presented to obtain supermode solutions. Using a nearest-neighbor mode coupling approximation, chirp-free pulse generation and electrically chirp-controlled operation are explained for the first time. The presence of a nonzero alpha parameter is found to change the symmetry of the supermode and significantly reduce the mode-locking range over which the lowest order supermode remains the minimum gain solution. An increase in absorber strength tends to lead to downchirped pulses. The effects of individual laser parameters are considered, and agreement with recent experimental results is discussed     

全光纤掺镱激光器实现锁模和多波长输出

利用半导体可饱和吸收镜(SESAM)和光纤环形镜(FLM)分别作为腔镜,实现了线形腔结构的全光纤掺镱激光器.通过调节偏振控制器(PC)和抽运功率得到了调Q、调Q锁模、连续锁模、二次谐波、三次谐波、多波长等多种输出状态.其中连续锁模状态可实现开机自启动,脉冲宽度31 ps,单脉冲能量40 pJ,重复频率19.3 MHz,...     

Simulation study on semiconductor laser mode locking usingnonlinear coupling in multimode-interference waveguide amplifiers

The feasibility of a passively mode-locked semiconductor laser with a multimode-interference (MMI) waveguide amplifier is numerically studied using a two-dimensional time-domain beam-propagation method. In an appropriately designed ring cavity, a pulse can be compressed from a few hundred picoseconds to several picoseconds, as a result of the interplay between linear coupling and gain saturation in the MMI waveguide amplifier. The asymptotically stable pulse peak position and pulsewidth imply the feasibility of passively mode-locking semiconductor lasers. The frequency chirping of the compressed pulse and the lateral distribution of the output beam are numerically analyzed in detail. Our simulations show that mode locking can be implemented within a fairly broad range of injection current and cavity alignment     

Time-domain ABCD matrix formalism for laser mode-locking andoptical pulse transmission

ABCD matrix formalism in the time domain has been newly developed on the basis of laser beam and resonator analyses which were developed under a Gaussian paraxial approximation. We derive matrix elements for amplitude and frequency modulations, group velocity dispersion, optical bandpass filter dispersion, and lumped self-phase modulation under a parabolic approximation. Applications to AM, FM, and stretched-pulse laser mode-locking are described by using these time-domain matrices. An application to pulse transmission in a dispersion-allocated system is also described     

端面抽运全固态皮秒被动锁模激光器

利用国产半导体可饱和吸收镜(SESAM),设计了不同的腔型结构,实现了平均功率5W单路输出,5W双路输出,输出透过率可调节的半导体可饱和吸收镜线型腔连续锁模(CWML)激光器,双向输出六镜环行腔连续锁模激光器等。将半导体可饱和吸收镜放在腔内的特殊位置,利用一种新的技术方法实现了锁模激光器的频率翻倍。利用由非线性晶体KTP和双色镜构成的非线性镜(NLM),实现了端面抽运Nd∶YVO4激光器的4W锁模输出。     

Generation of synchronized subterahertz optical pulse trains byrepetition-frequency multiplication of a subharmonic synchronousmode-locked semiconductor laser diode using fiber dispersion

We describe the generation of a synchronized, low-jitter, subterahertz optical pulse train by repetition-frequency multiplication of a subharmonic synchronous mode-locked semiconductor laser diode using the group-velocity dispersion (GVD) of optical fiber. A 49-196 GHz optical pulse train was generated with low intensity fluctuation and with low timing jitter, by adjusting fiber length in accordance with the mode-locking frequency and the fiber's GVD     

Dynamics of monolithic passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Monolithic colliding pulse mode-locking (CPM) in semiconductor lasers is compared with self colliding pulse mode-locking (SCPM) through a large signal dynamic computer model which incorporates most of the significant features of semiconductor lasers. These include gain saturation, spontaneous emission, the gain-frequency relation, and the line-width enhancement factor. This new model replicates many of the published experimental results and also gives additional insight into the internal operation of the device. In particular, gain saturation combined with the standing waves created by colliding pulses within the saturable absorber produce a transient gain grating. This is found to have significant effects in locking either the even or the odd modes together in CPM. A performance comparison between CPM and SCPM is completed and some key design parameters of both configurations are explored     

Bandwidth-limited picosecond pulse generation by hybrid mode-locking in a ring cavity GaAlAs laser

Bandwidth-limited picosecond pulses have been obtained using hybrid active/passive mode-locking in an external cavity semiconductor diode ring laser. Active mode-locking by application of sinusoidal RF modulation at the cavity round-trip frequency to a diode laser providing gain is supplemented by passive mode-locking in a second laser which is biased to provide saturable loss. Simultaneous streak camera and scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer measurements show that bandwidth-limited pulses of 25 Ps duration are obtained. Operation is not limited to near laser threshold, and frequency detuning sensitivity is improved when compared to the case of purely active mode-locking.     

输出大啁啾脉冲的展宽脉冲锁模光纤激光器

报道了一种大啁啾脉冲输出的全光纤展宽脉冲锁模激光器,以非线性偏振旋转(NPR)实现自启动锁模。激光器其余部分为全单模光纤(SMF)结构,提供很大的正色散,光栅对提供色散补偿,输出展宽脉冲。实验中得到了重复频率36.96MHz,单脉冲能量1.81nJ的稳定锁模脉冲序列,使用频谱分析仪观测得到脉冲序列一次谐波信噪比(SNR)达到80dB。直接输出脉冲有很大的正啁啾,脉宽为2.17ps,经过腔外压缩可获得70fs的脉冲。这种能压缩到百飞秒量级的大啁啾脉冲非常适用于光纤啁啾脉冲放大(CPA)系统。     

10×30 GHz pulse train generation from semiconductor amplifierfiber ring laser

A multiwavelength, fiber ring laser source, is demonstrated. It generates 10 wavelength channels, simultaneously mode-locked and synchronized at 30 GHz, each producing 7-ps pulses. The mode-locking technique relies on the gain saturation of the semiconductor amplifier from an external optical pulse train to impose the simultaneous mode-locking of the 10 wavelengths     

1053nm超短脉冲光纤激光的产生

为了研究环形腔掺Yb3+光纤激光器的输出特性,采用两个波长为976nm的半导体激光器作为超短脉冲激光器的抽运源,利用非线性偏振旋转锁模技术,实现了激光器的自起振锁模运转.实验中通过调节掺杂光纤的长度和偏振控制器波片的位置实现了锁模脉冲的波长调谐,在掺杂光纤长度为1.6m时,获得了波长为1053nm、最大输出功率为9.5mW、光谱宽度为6nm、重复频率为23.7MHz的超短光脉冲输出.实验结果与分析表明,采用调节光纤的长度和偏振控制器可实现超短脉冲光纤激光器的波长调谐.     

Fundamental and Subharmonic Hybrid Mode-Locking of a High-Power (220 mW) Monolithic Semiconductor Laser

We report on the generation of stable optical pulses at 1.55- mum wavelength via fundamental and subharmonic hybrid mode-locking of a high-power electrically pumped semiconductor diode laser with a slab-coupled optical waveguide structure. The highest average power measured in mode-locked operation was 220 mW. This is the highest power reported for a hybrid mode-locked monolithic semiconductor laser. We also measure the phase (or timing) noise during fundamental and subharmonic operation and our measurements show good agreement with theory.     

Numerical Study of Dynamical Regimes in a Monolithic Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser

Bifurcation mechanisms of the development and break up of different operation regimes in a passively mode-locked monolithic semiconductor laser are studied by solving numerically partial differential equations for amplitudes of two counterpropagating waves and carrier densities in gain and absorber sections. It is shown that mode-locking regimes with different repetition rates can be multistable for a wide range of laser parameters and that the harmonic mode-locking regime with two counterpropagating pulses in the cavity can exhibit a period-doubling bifurcation leading to different amplitudes and separations of the pulses. The effect of linewidth enhancement factors in gain and absorber sections on the laser dynamics is discussed.     

Chirp compensation in mode-locked DFB laser diodes with extendedcavity

The spectro-temporal behavior of actively mode-locked fiber-external-cavity DFB lasers at 1.55 μm is analyzed in detail. Experiments are performed with multiquantum-well InGaAsP lasers of different lengths and different phase-amplitude coupling factors. Transform-limited picosecond pulses are generated with pulsewidth adjustable over half a decade by changing the RF conditions and the device length. As in the case of conventional laser diodes with external grating, the smallest time-bandwidth products are obtained for modulation frequencies to the high-frequency side of the mode-locking band. This result is presently described in terms of chirp compensation by the DFB cavity dispersion. An analytical expression of the pulse compressibility is established from a steady-state mode-locking equation including refractive index variations and cavity dispersion effects. Gain parameters entering the expression are separately evaluated from standard rate equations. A good agreement is found between experimental and theoretical results     

Noise characterization of a mode-locked InGaAsP semiconductor diodelaser

Noise measurements were made on an InGaAsP semiconductor diode laser by monitoring and analyzing the mode-locked pulse train power spectrum. The noise content of the mode-locking RF source was observed to be transferred directly to the laser pulse train and, thus, careful selection of the drive oscillator is essential. Amplification of the laser pulses by an erbium-fiber amplifier did not lead to any increase in timing jitter and the additional amplitude noise present could be removed by using a more compatible pump source such as a diode laser operating at either 980 or 1490 nm