All-fiber design of erbium-doped laser system for tunable two-cycle pulse generation

doi:10.1364/OE.19.020141

All-fiber design of erbium-doped laser system for tunable two-cycle pulse generation

E.A. Anashkina, A.V. Andrianov, S.V. Muravyev, and A.V. Kim »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 21, pp. 20141-20150 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.020141

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We report a simple all-fiber design of an Er-doped laser system that is capable of generating widely tunable two-cycle pulses. In particular, 13-fs pulses at a wavelength of 1.7 μm are produced. The mechanism of pulse shortening is identical to the higher-order soliton compression and is supported by modeling based on the slowly evolving wave approximation, which is well suited for down to single-cycle pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersion-shifted fibers.

OCIS Codes
(060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(060.7140) Fiber optics and optical communications : Ultrafast processes in fibers
(320.5520) Ultrafast optics : Pulse compression
(320.7140) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast processes in fibers

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Ultrafast Optics

History
Original Manuscript: July 28, 2011
Revised Manuscript: September 2, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: September 5, 2011
Published: September 29, 2011

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E.A. Anashkina, A.V. Andrianov, S.V. Muravyev, and A.V. Kim, "All-fiber design of erbium-doped laser system for tunable two-cycle pulse generation," Opt. Express 19, 20141-20150 (2011)
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M. Wegener, Extreme Nonlinear Optics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005).
S. Rausch, T. Binhammer, A. Harth, J. Kim, R. Ell, F.X. Kartner, and U. Morgner, “Controlled waveforms on the single-cycle scale from a femtosecond oscillator,” Opt. Express16, 9739–9745 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Sell, G. Krauss, R. Scheu, R. Huber, and A. Leitenstorfer, “8-fs pulses from a compact Er:fiber system: quantitative modeling and experimental implementation,” Opt. Express17, 1070–1077 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Andrianov, A. Kim, S. Muraviov, and A. Sysoliatin, “Wavelength-tunable few-cycle optical pulses directly from an all-fiber Er-doped laser setup,” Opt. Lett.15, 3193–3195 (2009). [CrossRef]
F.X. Kärtner, Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Generation and Its Applications (New York: Springer, 2004).
A. Baltuška, M.S. Pshenichnikov, and D.A. Wiersma, “Amplitude and phase characterization of 4.5-fs pulses by frequency-resolved optical gating,” Opt. Lett.23, 1474–1476 (1998). [CrossRef]
K. Kieu, R. Jason Jones, and N. Peyghambarian, “Generation of few-cycle pulses from an amplified carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber laser system,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.22, 1521–1523 (2010). [CrossRef]
A.A. Amorim, M.V. Tognetti, P. Oliveira, J.L. Silva, L.M. Bernardo, F.X. Kärtner, and H.M. Crespo, “Sub-two-cycle pulses by soliton selfcompression in highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibers,” Opt. Lett.34, 3851–3853 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M.A. Foster, A.L. Gaeta, Q. Cao, and R. Trebino, “Soliton-effect compression of supercontinuum to few-cycle durations in photonic nanowires,” Opt. Express13, 6848–6855 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G. Krauss1, S. Lohss, T. Hanke, A. Sell, S. Eggert, R. Huber, and A. Leitenstorfer, “Synthesis of a single cycle of light with compact erbium-doped fibre technology,” Nat. Photon.4, 33–36 (2010). [CrossRef]
M. Yamashita, K. Yamane, and R. Morita, “Quasi-Automatic Phase-Control Technique for Chirp Compensation of Pulses With Over-One-Octave BandwidthGeneration of Few- to Mono-Cycle Optical Pulses,” IEEE J. Selec. Top. Quantum. Electron.12213–222 (2006). [CrossRef]
G.P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 4th ed. (Academic, 2007).
A.V. Andrianov, E.A. Anashkina, S.V. Muraviov, and A.V. Kim, “All-fiber design of hybrid Er-doped laser/Yb-doped amplifier system for high power ultrashort pulse generation,” Opt. Lett.35, 3805–3807 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G. Taft, A. Rundquist, M.M. Murnane, I.P. Christov, H.C. Kapteyn, K.W. DeLong, D.N. Fittinghoff, M.A. Krumbügel, J.N. Sweetser, and R. Trebino, “Measurement of 10-fs laser pulses,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.2, 575–585 (1996). [CrossRef]
T. Hori, N. Nishizawa, T. Goto, and M. Yoshida, “Experimental and numerical analysis of widely broadened supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber with a femtosecond pulse,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B21, 1969–1980 (2004). [CrossRef]
F. Tauser, F. Adler, and A. Leitenstorfer, “Widely tunable sub-30-fs pulses from a compact erbium-doped fiber source,” Opt. Lett.29, 516–518 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
Guoqing Chang, Li-Jin Chen, and Franz X. Krtner, “Fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation in the few-cycle regime,” Opt. Express19, 6635–6647 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
T. Brabec and F. Krausz, “Nonlinear Optical Pulse Propagation in the Single-Cycle Regime,” Phys. Rev. Lett.78, 3282–3285 (1997). [CrossRef]
A.V. Husakou and J. Herrmann, “Supercontinuum generation of higher-order solitons by fission in photonic crystal fibers,” Phys. Rev. Lett.87, 203901–203904 (2001). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R.W. Helwarth, A. Owyoung, and N. George, “Origin of the nonlinear refractive index of liquid CCl4,” Phys. Rev. A4, 2342–2347 (1971). [CrossRef]
R.W. Helwarth, J. Cherlow, and T.T. Yang, “Origin and frequency dependence of nonlinear optical susceptibilities of glasses,” Phys. Rev. B11, 964–967 (1975). [CrossRef]
K.J. Blow and D. Wood, “Theoretical description of transient stimulated Raman scattering in optical fibers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.25, 2665–2673 (1989). [CrossRef]
S.A. Skobelev, D.V. Kartashov, and A.V. Kim, “Few-optical-cycle solitons and pulse self-compression in a Kerr medium,” Phys. Rev. Lett.99, 203902–203905 (2007). [CrossRef]
A.V. Kim, S.A. Skobelev, D. Anderson, T. Hansson, and M. Lisak, “Extreme nonlinear optics in a Kerr medium: Exact soliton solutions for a few cycles,” Phys. Rev. A77, 043823 (2008). [CrossRef]
K. Kieu, R.J. Jones, and N. Peyghambarian, “High power femtosecond source near 1 micron based on an all-fiber Er-doped mode-locked laser,” Opt. Express18, 21350–21355 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Adler, F.
Agrawal, G.P.
Amorim, A.A.
Anashkina, E.A.
Anderson, D.
Andrianov, A.
Andrianov, A.V.
Baltuška, A.
Bernardo, L.M.
Binhammer, T.
Blow, K.J.
Brabec, T.
Cao, Q.
Chang, Guoqing
Chen, Li-Jin
Cherlow, J.
Christov, I.P.
Crespo, H.M.
DeLong, K.W.
Eggert, S.
Ell, R.
Fittinghoff, D.N.
Foster, M.A.
Gaeta, A.L.
George, N.
Goto, T.
Hanke, T.
Hansson, T.
Harth, A.
Helwarth, R.W.
Herrmann, J.
Hori, T.
Huber, R.
Husakou, A.V.
Jason Jones, R.
Jones, R.J.
Kapteyn, H.C.
Kartashov, D.V.
Kartner, F.X.
Kärtner, F.X.
Kieu, K.
Kim, A.
Kim, A.V.
Kim, J.
Krauss, G.
Krauss1, G.
Krausz, F.
Krtner, Franz X.
Krumbügel, M.A.
Leitenstorfer, A.
Lisak, M.
Lohss, S.
Morgner, U.
Morita, R.
Muraviov, S.
Muraviov, S.V.
Murnane, M.M.
Nishizawa, N.
Oliveira, P.
Owyoung, A.
Peyghambarian, N.
Pshenichnikov, M.S.
Rausch, S.
Rundquist, A.
Scheu, R.
Sell, A.
Silva, J.L.
Skobelev, S.A.
Sweetser, J.N.
Sysoliatin, A.
Taft, G.
Tauser, F.
Tognetti, M.V.
Trebino, R.
Wegener, M.
Wiersma, D.A.
Wood, D.
Yamane, K.
Yamashita, M.
Yang, T.T.
Yoshida, M.

IEEE J. Selec. Top. Quantum. Electron.

M. Yamashita, K. Yamane, and R. Morita, “Quasi-Automatic Phase-Control Technique for Chirp Compensation of Pulses With Over-One-Octave BandwidthGeneration of Few- to Mono-Cycle Optical Pulses,” IEEE J. Selec. Top. Quantum. Electron.12213–222 (2006). [CrossRef]

J. Opt. Soc. Am. B

T. Hori, N. Nishizawa, T. Goto, and M. Yoshida, “Experimental and numerical analysis of widely broadened supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear dispersion-shifted fiber with a femtosecond pulse,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B21, 1969–1980 (2004). [CrossRef]

Nat. Photon.

G. Krauss1, S. Lohss, T. Hanke, A. Sell, S. Eggert, R. Huber, and A. Leitenstorfer, “Synthesis of a single cycle of light with compact erbium-doped fibre technology,” Nat. Photon.4, 33–36 (2010). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Guoqing Chang, Li-Jin Chen, and Franz X. Krtner, “Fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation in the few-cycle regime,” Opt. Express19, 6635–6647 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

F. Tauser, F. Adler, and A. Leitenstorfer, “Widely tunable sub-30-fs pulses from a compact erbium-doped fiber source,” Opt. Lett.29, 516–518 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

T. Brabec and F. Krausz, “Nonlinear Optical Pulse Propagation in the Single-Cycle Regime,” Phys. Rev. Lett.78, 3282–3285 (1997). [CrossRef]

Other

A.V. Husakou and J. Herrmann, “Supercontinuum generation of higher-order solitons by fission in photonic crystal fibers,” Phys. Rev. Lett.87, 203901–203904 (2001). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
R.W. Helwarth, A. Owyoung, and N. George, “Origin of the nonlinear refractive index of liquid CCl4,” Phys. Rev. A4, 2342–2347 (1971). [CrossRef]
R.W. Helwarth, J. Cherlow, and T.T. Yang, “Origin and frequency dependence of nonlinear optical susceptibilities of glasses,” Phys. Rev. B11, 964–967 (1975). [CrossRef]
K.J. Blow and D. Wood, “Theoretical description of transient stimulated Raman scattering in optical fibers,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron.25, 2665–2673 (1989). [CrossRef]
S.A. Skobelev, D.V. Kartashov, and A.V. Kim, “Few-optical-cycle solitons and pulse self-compression in a Kerr medium,” Phys. Rev. Lett.99, 203902–203905 (2007). [CrossRef]
A.V. Kim, S.A. Skobelev, D. Anderson, T. Hansson, and M. Lisak, “Extreme nonlinear optics in a Kerr medium: Exact soliton solutions for a few cycles,” Phys. Rev. A77, 043823 (2008). [CrossRef]
K. Kieu, R.J. Jones, and N. Peyghambarian, “High power femtosecond source near 1 micron based on an all-fiber Er-doped mode-locked laser,” Opt. Express18, 21350–21355 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Wegener, Extreme Nonlinear Optics (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005).
S. Rausch, T. Binhammer, A. Harth, J. Kim, R. Ell, F.X. Kartner, and U. Morgner, “Controlled waveforms on the single-cycle scale from a femtosecond oscillator,” Opt. Express16, 9739–9745 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Sell, G. Krauss, R. Scheu, R. Huber, and A. Leitenstorfer, “8-fs pulses from a compact Er:fiber system: quantitative modeling and experimental implementation,” Opt. Express17, 1070–1077 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Andrianov, A. Kim, S. Muraviov, and A. Sysoliatin, “Wavelength-tunable few-cycle optical pulses directly from an all-fiber Er-doped laser setup,” Opt. Lett.15, 3193–3195 (2009). [CrossRef]
F.X. Kärtner, Few-Cycle Laser Pulse Generation and Its Applications (New York: Springer, 2004).
A. Baltuška, M.S. Pshenichnikov, and D.A. Wiersma, “Amplitude and phase characterization of 4.5-fs pulses by frequency-resolved optical gating,” Opt. Lett.23, 1474–1476 (1998). [CrossRef]
K. Kieu, R. Jason Jones, and N. Peyghambarian, “Generation of few-cycle pulses from an amplified carbon nanotube mode-locked fiber laser system,” IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.22, 1521–1523 (2010). [CrossRef]
A.A. Amorim, M.V. Tognetti, P. Oliveira, J.L. Silva, L.M. Bernardo, F.X. Kärtner, and H.M. Crespo, “Sub-two-cycle pulses by soliton selfcompression in highly nonlinear photonic crystal fibers,” Opt. Lett.34, 3851–3853 (2009). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M.A. Foster, A.L. Gaeta, Q. Cao, and R. Trebino, “Soliton-effect compression of supercontinuum to few-cycle durations in photonic nanowires,” Opt. Express13, 6848–6855 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G.P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics, 4th ed. (Academic, 2007).
A.V. Andrianov, E.A. Anashkina, S.V. Muraviov, and A.V. Kim, “All-fiber design of hybrid Er-doped laser/Yb-doped amplifier system for high power ultrashort pulse generation,” Opt. Lett.35, 3805–3807 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
G. Taft, A. Rundquist, M.M. Murnane, I.P. Christov, H.C. Kapteyn, K.W. DeLong, D.N. Fittinghoff, M.A. Krumbügel, J.N. Sweetser, and R. Trebino, “Measurement of 10-fs laser pulses,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.2, 575–585 (1996). [CrossRef]

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