Low-noise, high-brightness, tunable source of picosecond pulsed light in the near-infrared and visible

We have built a flexible source of picosecond pulsed light in both the near-infrared and visible spectral regions. A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) was pumped with a pulsed 1064 nm fiber laser to generate four-wave mixing (FWM) sidebands at 947 nm and 1213 nm. This process was seeded at the idler wave...

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Published in:Optics express 2011-12, Vol.19 (25), p.25337-25345
Main Authors: Mosley, Peter J, Bateman, Samuel A, Lavoute, Laure, Wadsworth, William J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Fiber Optic Technology - instrumentation
Infrared Rays
Lasers
Lighting - instrumentation
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Summary:We have built a flexible source of picosecond pulsed light in both the near-infrared and visible spectral regions. A photonic crystal fiber (PCF) was pumped with a pulsed 1064 nm fiber laser to generate four-wave mixing (FWM) sidebands at 947 nm and 1213 nm. This process was seeded at the idler wavelength with a tunable diode laser to limit the spectral width of the sidebands to less than 0.5 nm. Subsequently the idler was mixed efficiently with the residual pump in a nonlinear crystal to yield their sum frequency at 567 nm. All three outputs were tunable by adjusting the seed wavelength and all had very low pulse-to-pulse amplitude noise. This technique could be extended to different wavelength ranges by selecting different seed lasers and PCF.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.19.025337