Cascaded nonlinearity based soliton pulse compression in the process of femtosecond difference frequency generation is studied theoretically. A set of simplified coupled wave equations under the conditions of large phase mismatch and matched group velocities is obtained,which reveals the physical mechanism of soliton compression in this process. Numerical simulations demonstrate that in the presence of group velocity dispersion and equivalent cross phase modulation,both the pump and the signal pulses can be compressed with a high compression ratio.
A femtosecond optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by a Ti:Sapphire oscillator is reported.By the cavity length tuning,the signal wavelength is continuously tuned from 1000 to 1200 nm.The average output power of 32 mW is obtained at 1053 nm.The pulse width is measured to be 342 fs by intensity autocorrelation method.In addition,we observed bichromatic emission during the cavity length tuning process.
This paper reports the carrier-envelop phase (CEP) locking for the 5 fs re-compressed laser pulse generated from a chirped pulse amplified (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser at 1 kHz repetition rate. A phase locking feedback system with two loops was designed to control the fast fluctuation arising from the seeding laser and the slow fluctuation arising from the sub-mJ amplified pulse. The principle and structure of the phase control system, including the CEP detection, servo loop design and phase locking result, are analyzed. The experiment shows that our phase locking system can be well used to establish the stable phase locking of few-cycle amplified laser pulse, and the CEP variation of below 53 mrad (rms) was demonstrated during a locking period of more than 3 h.
DU Qiang ZHU JiangFeng TENG Hao YUN ChenXia WEI ZhiYi
This paper presents a Kerr-lens mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser at the repetition rate of 525 MHz,stable laser pulse as short as 10 fs with average output power of 480 mW is obtained.By injecting the pulse into photonics crystal fibre,octave-spanning spectrum covered from 500 to 1050 nm is generated,carrier-envelope phase frequency with signal-to-noise ratio of 31dB is measured,which paves the way for the generation of a compact frequency comb.
