Self-referenceable frequency comb from a gigahertz diode-pumped solid-state laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 16491-16497

  Pekarek, Selina ^a   Südmeyer, Thomas ^a   Lecomte, Steve ^b   Kundermann, Stefan ^b   Dudley, John M ^c   Keller, Ursula ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POTASSIUM; PULSE COMPRESSION; SOLITONS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; YTTERBIUM;

AVERAGE POWER; CARRIER ENVELOPE OFFSET FREQUENCIES; DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER; DIODE-PUMPED; FREQUENCY COMBS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PEAK POWER; POTASSIUM-GADOLINIUM TUNGSTATE; REPETITION RATE; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 80051768227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.016491     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. H. R. Telle, G. Steinmeyer, A. E. Dunlop, J. Stenger, D. H. Sutter, and U. Keller, "Carrier-envelope offset phase control: A novel concept for absolute optical frequency measurement and ultrashort pulse generation," Appl. Phys. B 69(4), 327-332 (1999).
2. D. J. Jones, S. A. Diddams, J. K. Ranka, A. Stentz, R. S. Windeler, J. L. Hall, and S. T. Cundiff, "Carrier-envelope phase control of femtosecond mode-locked lasers and direct optical frequency synthesis," Science 288(5466), 635-640 (2000).
3. S. A. Diddams, D. J. Jones, J. Ye, S. T. Cundiff, J. L. Hall, J. K. Ranka, R. S. Windeler, R. Holzwarth, T. Udem, and T. W. Hänsch, "Direct link between microwave and optical frequencies with a 300 THz femtosecond laser comb," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84(22), 5102-5105 (2000).
4. M. C. Stumpf, S. Pekarek, A. E. H. Oehler, T. Südmeyer, J. M. Dudley, and U. Keller, "Self-referencable frequency comb from a 170-fs, 1.5-μm solid-state laser oscillator," Appl. Phys. B 99(3), 401-408 (2010).
5. U. Keller, "Ultrafast solid-state lasers," in Landolt-Börnstein. Laser Physics and Applications. Subvolume B: Laser Systems. Part I., G. Herziger, H. Weber, and R. Proprawe, eds. (Springer Verlag, 2007), pp. 33-167.
6. A. E. H. Oehler, T. Südmeyer, K. J. Weingarten, and U. Keller, "100 GHz passively mode-locked Er:Yb:glass laser at 1.5 microm with 1.6-ps pulses," Opt. Express 16(26), 21930-21935 (2008).
7. 4 lasers with pulse repetition rates up to 160 GHz," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 38(10), 1331-1338 (2002). (Pubitemid 35170372)
8. A. E. H. Oehler, M. C. Stumpf, S. Pekarek, T. Südmeyer, K. J. Weingarten, and U. Keller, "Picosecond diode-pumped 1.5 μm Er,Yb:glass lasers operating at 10-100 GHz repetition rate," Appl. Phys. B 99(1-2), 53-62 (2010).
9. 2 solid-state laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror," Opt. Lett. 35(5), 748-750 (2010).
10. P. Wasylczyk, P. Wnuk, and C. Radzewicz, "Passively modelocked, diode-pumped Yb:KYW femtosecond oscillator with 1 GHz repetition rate," Opt. Express 17(7), 5630-5635 (2009).
11. S. Pekarek, C. Fiebig, M. C. Stumpf, A. E. H. Oehler, K. Paschke, G. Erbert, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller, "Diode-pumped gigahertz femtosecond Yb:KGW laser with a peak power of 3.9 kW," Opt. Express 18(16), 16320-16326 (2010).
12. A. Bartels, D. Heinecke, and S. A. Diddams, "10-GHz self-referenced optical frequency comb," Science 326(5953), 681 (2009).
13. I. Hartl, H. A. McKay, R. Thapa, B. K. Thomas, A. Ruehl, L. Dong, and M. E. Fermann, "Fully stabilized GHz Yb-fiber laser frequency comb," in Advanced Solid-State Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper MF9.
14. R. Holzwarth, M. Zimmermann, T. Udem, T. W. Hänsch, P. Russbüldt, K. Gäbel, R. Poprawe, J. C. Knight, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. S. J. Russell, "White-light frequency comb generation with a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser," Opt. Lett. 26(17), 1376-1378 (2001). (Pubitemid 33693674)
15. S. A. Meyer, J. A. Squier, and S. A. Diddams, "Diode-pumped Yb:KYW femtosecond laser frequency comb with stabilized carrier-envelope offset frequency," Eur. Phys. J. D 48(1), 19-26 (2008).
16. G. Genty, S. Coen, and J. M. Dudley, "Fiber supercontinuum sources (Invited)," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24(8), 1771-1785 (2007). (Pubitemid 47407499)
17. C. Fiebig, G. Blume, C. Kaspari, D. Feise, J. Fricke, M. Matalla, W. John, H. Wenzel, K. Paschke, and G. Erbert, "12W high-brightness single-frequency DBR tapered diode laser," Electron. Lett. 44(21), 1253-1255 (2008).
18. U. Keller, K. J. Weingarten, F. X. Kärtner, D. Kopf, B. Braun, I. D. Jung, R. Fluck, C. Hönninger, N. Matuschek, and J. Aus der Au, "Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (SESAMs) for femtosecond to nanosecond pulse generation in solid-state lasers," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2(3), 435-453 (1996).
19. M. Haiml, R. Grange, and U. Keller, "Optical characterization of semiconductor saturable absorbers," Appl. Phys. B 79(3), 331-339 (2004).
20. F. X. Kärtner, I. D. Jung, and U. Keller, "Soliton mode-locking with saturable absorbers," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 2(3), 540-556 (1996). (Pubitemid 126530176)
21. J. M. Dudley, G. Genty, and S. Coen, "Supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fiber," Rev. Mod. Phys. 78(4), 1135-1184 (2006). (Pubitemid 44521770)
22. 3 thin disk laser," Opt. Express 17(13), 10725-10730 (2009).
23. T. Südmeyer, C. Kränkel, C. R. E. Baer, O. H. Heckl, C. J. Saraceno, M. Golling, R. Peters, K. Petermann, G. Huber, and U. Keller, "High-power ultrafast thin disk laser oscillators and their potential for sub-100- femtosecond pulse generation," Appl. Phys. B 97(2), 281-295 (2009).
24. U. Keller and A. C. Tropper, "Passively modelocked surface-emitting semiconductor lasers," Phys. Rep. 429(2), 67-120 (2006). (Pubitemid 43840860)
25. A.-R. Bellancourt, D. J. H. C. Maas, B. Rudin, M. Golling, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller, "Mode-locked integrated external-cavity surface emitting laser," IET Optoelectron. 3(2), 61-72 (2009).
26. D. J. H. C. Maas, A.-R. Bellancourt, B. Rudin, M. Golling, H. J. Unold, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller, "Vertical integration of ultrafast semiconductor lasers," Appl. Phys. B 88(4), 493-497 (2007). (Pubitemid 47401957)
27. M. Hoffmann, O. D. Sieber, V. J. Wittwer, I. L. Krestnikov, D. A. Livshits, Y. Barbarin, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller, "Femtosecond high-power quantum dot vertical external cavity surface emitting laser," Opt. Express 19(9), 8108-8116 (2011).
28. V. Wittwer, C. Zaugg, W. Pallmann, A. Oehler, B. Rudin, M. Hoffmann, M. Golling, Y. Barbarin, T. Südmeyer, and U. Keller, "Timing jitter characterization of a free-running SESAM modelocked VECSEL," IEEE Photon. J. 3(4), 658-664 (2011).