Femtosecond passively modelocked diode laser with intracavity dispersion management

doi:10.1364/OE.18.024316

Femtosecond passively modelocked diode laser with intracavity dispersion management

Tobias Schlauch, Jan C. Balzer, Andreas Klehr, Götz Erbert, Günther Tränkle, and Martin R. Hofmann »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 23, pp. 24316-24324 (2010)
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Abstract

We report on the generation of ultrashort pulses by dispersion management of a passively modelocked external cavity diode laser. Pulse widths down to 200 fs are obtained at 830nm emission wavelength. We use intracavity dispersion management to increase the spectral bandwidth and compress the strongly chirped pulses externally with a grating compressor.

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(140.2020) Lasers and laser optics : Diode lasers
(320.2250) Ultrafast optics : Femtosecond phenomena
(320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements
(320.7120) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast phenomena

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Lasers and Laser Optics

History
Original Manuscript: August 24, 2010
Revised Manuscript: September 16, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: October 13, 2010
Published: November 5, 2010

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Tobias Schlauch, Jan C. Balzer, Andreas Klehr, Götz Erbert, Günther Tränkle, and Martin R. Hofmann, "Femtosecond passively modelocked diode laser with intracavity dispersion management," Opt. Express 18, 24316-24324 (2010)
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H. A. Haus, “Theory Of Modelocking Of A Laser Diode In An External Resonator,” Appl. Phys. (Berl.) 51, 4042–4049 (1980). [CrossRef]
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Adamiec, P.
Akturk, S.
Alphonse, G. A.
Andreadakis, N. C.
Apostolopoulos, V.
Aschwanden, A.
Augustyniak, W. M.
Azouz, A.
Backus, S.
Beere, H.
Bieler, M.
Bischoff, S.
Bowers, J. E.
Breede, M.
Brorson, S. D.
Bugge, F.
Buus, J. S.
Cataluna, M. A.
Connolly, J. C.
Delfyett, P. J.
Derickson, D. J.
Dittmar, F.
Durfee, C. G.
Elsmere, S. P.
Erbert, G.
Farrer, I.
Fermann, M. E.
Fittinghoff, D. N.
Florez, L. T.
Franck, T.
Fricke, J.
Fröjdh, K.
Fuchs, H.
Gini, E.
Gmitter, T.
Gowar, J.
Griebner, U.
Harth, F.
Hartl, I.
Hasler, K. H.
Haus, H. A.
Helkey, R. J.
Heritage, J. P.
Hoffmann, S.
Hofmann, M.
Hofmann, M. R.
Il’inskaya, N. D.
Ippen, E. P.
Jördens, C.
Jusinski, L.
Kamiya, T.
Kapteyn, H. C.
Karin, J. R.
Keller, U.
Kim, K.
Kimmel, M.
Klehr, A.
Kleine-Ostmann, T.
Klopp, P.
Knobloch, P.
Koch, M.
Kovsh, A. R.
Krumbiigel, M. A.
Kwok, A.
L’huillier, J. A.
Ledentsov, N. N.
Lee, C. H.
Lee, S.
Li, M.
Liero, A.
Livshits, D. A.
Logan, R.
Lorenser, D.
Lourtioz, J. M.
Mar, A.
Martinez, O. E.
Meyn, J. P.
Mihoubi, Z.
Mikulyak, R.
Mo?rk, J.
Murnane, M. M.
O’Shea, P.
Osinski, M.
Paschotta, R.
Penty, R. V.
Prip, L.
Quarterman, A. H.
Rae, A. R.
Rafailov, E. U.
Ritchie, D. A.
Schell, M.
Schlauch, T.
Sibbett, W.
Silberberg, Y.
Stelmakh, N.
Stoffel, N.
Struckmeier, J.
Sumpf, B.
Sweetser, J. N.
Thompson, M. G.
Torizuka, K.
Tränkle, G.
Trebino, R.
Tropper, A.
Tropper, A. C.
Tsang, W.
Tsuchiya, M.
Uemura, S.
Ulm, T.
Unold, H. J.
Ustinov, V. M.
van der Ziel, J. P.
Vasil’ev, P. P.
Wallenstein, R.
Wasserbauer, J. G.
Wenzel, H.
Weyers, M.
White, H.
White, I. H.
Wilcox, K. G.
Xia, M.
Zadiranov, Y. M.
Zhukov, A. E.
Zimmermann, J.
Zorn, M.

Appl. Phys. (Berl.)

H. A. Haus, “Theory Of Modelocking Of A Laser Diode In An External Resonator,” Appl. Phys. (Berl.) 51, 4042–4049 (1980). [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. B

E. P. Ippen, “Principles Of Passive Mode Locking,” Appl. Phys. B 58(3), 159–170 (1994). [CrossRef]
C. Jördens, T. Schlauch, M. Li, M. R. Hofmann, M. Bieler, and M. Koch, “All-Semiconductor Laser Driven Terahertz Time-Domain Spectrometer,” Appl. Phys. B 93(2-3), 515–520 (2008). [CrossRef]
T. Ulm, F. Harth, H. Fuchs, J. A. L’huillier, and R. Wallenstein, “InGaAs Diode Laser System Generating Pulses Of 580 fs Duration And 366 W Peak Power,” Appl. Phys. B 92(4), 481–485 (2008). [CrossRef]

Appl. Phys. Lett.

M. Hofmann, S. Bischoff, T. Franck, L. Prip, S. D. Brorson, J. Mo̸rk, and K. Fröjdh, “Chirp of monolithic colliding pulse mode-locked diode lasers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 70(19), 2514–2516 (1997). [CrossRef]
E. U. Rafailov, M. A. Cataluna, W. Sibbett, N. D. Il’inskaya, Y. M. Zadiranov, A. E. Zhukov, V. M. Ustinov, D. A. Livshits, A. R. Kovsh, and N. N. Ledentsov, “High-Power Picosecond And Femtosecond Pulse Generation From A Two-Section Mode-Locked Quantum-Dot Laser,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 87(8), 081107 (2005). [CrossRef]
J. P. van der Ziel, W. Tsang, R. Logan, R. Mikulyak, and W. M. Augustyniak, “Subpicosecond Pulses From Passively Mode-Locked GaAs Buried Optical Guide Semiconductor-Lasers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 39(7), 525–527 (1981). [CrossRef]
P. J. Delfyett, C. H. Lee, G. A. Alphonse, and J. C. Connolly, “High Peak Power Picosecond Pulse Generation From AlGaAs External Cavity Mode-Locked Semiconductor-Laser And Traveling-Wave Amplifier,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 57(10), 971–973 (1990). [CrossRef]

Electron. Lett.

A. Azouz, N. Stelmakh, and J. M. Lourtioz, “Passive Modelocking Of Semiconductor Lasers With Tunable Group Velocity Dispersion Cavity,” Electron. Lett. 29(16), 1437–1438 (1993). [CrossRef]
T. Schlauch, M. Li, M. R. Hofmann, A. Klehr, G. Erbert, and G. Tränkle, “High Peak Power Femtosecond Pulses From Modelocked Semiconductor Laser in External Cavity,” Electron. Lett. 44(11), 678–679 (2008). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Quantum Electron.

O. E. Martinez, “3000 Times Grating Compressor With Positive Group Velocity Dispersion: Application To Fiber Compensation In 1.3-1.6 μm Region,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 23(1), 59–64 (1987). [CrossRef]
D. J. Derickson, R. J. Helkey, A. Mar, J. R. Karin, J. G. Wasserbauer, and J. E. Bowers, “Short Pulse Generation Using Multisegment Mode-Locked Semiconductor,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 28(10), 2186–2202 (1992). [CrossRef]
P. J. Delfyett, L. T. Florez, N. Stoffel, T. Gmitter, N. C. Andreadakis, Y. Silberberg, J. P. Heritage, and G. A. Alphonse, “High-Power Ultrafast Laser-Diodes,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 28(10), 2203–2219 (1992). [CrossRef]
M. Osinski and J. S. Buus, “Linewidth Broadening Factor In Semiconductor-Lasers – An Overview,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 23(1), 9–29 (1987). [CrossRef]
M. Schell, M. Tsuchiya, and T. Kamiya, “Chirp And Stability Of Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 32(7), 1180–1190 (1996). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

B. Sumpf, K. H. Hasler, P. Adamiec, F. Bugge, F. Dittmar, J. Fricke, H. Wenzel, M. Zorn, G. Erbert, and G. Tränkle, “High-brightness Quantum Well Tapered Lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15(3), 1009–1020 (2009). [CrossRef]
M. G. Thompson, A. R. Rae, M. Xia, R. V. Penty, and I. H. White, “InGaAs Quantum-Dot Mode-Locked Laser Diodes,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15, 661–672 (2009). [CrossRef]
M. E. Fermann and I. Hartl, “Ultrafast Fiber Laser Technology,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15(1), 191–206 (2009). [CrossRef]
A. Kwok, L. Jusinski, M. A. Krumbiigel, J. N. Sweetser, D. N. Fittinghoff, and R. Trebino, “Frequency-resolved optical gating using cascaded second-order nonlinearities,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 4(2), 271–277 (1998). [CrossRef]

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

K. G. Wilcox, A. H. Quarterman, H. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, and A. C. Tropper, “High Peak Power Femtosecond Pulse Passively Mode-Locked Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 22(14), 1021–1023 (2010). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

H. A. Haus and Y. Silberberg, “Theory of mode locking of a laser diode with a multiple-quantum-well structure,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2(7), 1237–1243 (1985). [CrossRef]

Nat. Photonics

A. H. Quarterman, K. G. Wilcox, V. Apostolopoulos, Z. Mihoubi, S. P. Elsmere, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and A. Tropper, “A Passively Mode-Locked External Cavity Semiconductor Laser Emitting 60-fs Pulses,” Nat. Photonics 3(12), 729–731 (2009). [CrossRef]

Opt. Commun.

M. Breede, S. Hoffmann, J. Zimmermann, J. Struckmeier, M. Hofmann, T. Kleine-Ostmann, P. Knobloch, M. Koch, and J. P. Meyn, “Fourier-transform external cavity lasers,” Opt. Commun. 207(1-6), 261–271 (2002). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Opt. Lett.

Rep. Prog. Phys.

P. P. Vasil’ev, H. White, and J. Gowar, “Fast Phenomena in Semiconductor Lasers,” Rep. Prog. Phys. 63(12), 1997–2042 (2000). [CrossRef]

Rev. Sci. Instrum.

S. Backus, C. G. Durfee, M. M. Murnane, and H. C. Kapteyn, “High Power Ultrafast Lasers,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 69(3), 1207–1223 (1998). [CrossRef]

Other

J.-C. Diels, and W. Rudolph, Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, (Academic, Amsterdam, 2006).
R. Trebino, Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses, (Kluwer Academic, Norwell, Massachusetts, 2000).

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