High-power efficient generation of visible and mid-infrared radiation exploiting four-wave-mixing in optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24957-24965

  Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Steinmetz, Alexander ^a   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; HIGH-POWER; MID-INFRARED RADIATION; MID-IR RADIATION; PICOSECONDS; POWER LEVELS; SILICA FIBERS; SINGLE MODE; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; SILICA;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 84868254169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024957     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. S. Shim and R. A. Mathies, "Generation of narrow-bandwidth picosecond visible pulses from broadband femtosecond pulses for femtosecond stimulated Raman", Appl. Phys. Lett. 89(12), 121124 (2006).
2. M. G. Allen, "Diode laser absorption sensors for gas-dynamic and combustion flows", Meas. Sci. Technol. 9(4), 545-562 (1998).
3. M. Seiter and M. W. Sigrist, "Trace-gas sensor based on mid-IR difference-frequency generation in PPLN with saturated output power", Infrared Phys. Technol. 41(5), 259-269 (2000).
4. S. M. Shepard, "Introduction to active thermography for non-destructive evaluation", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials 44(4), 236-239 (1997).
5. S. Kim, P. Klimecky, J. B. Jeffries, F. L. Terry, Jr., and R. K. Hanson, "In situ measurements of HCl during plasma etching of poly-silicon using a diode laser absorption sensor", Meas. Sci. Technol. 14(9), 1662-1670 (2003).
6. P. F. Moulton, G. A. Rines, E. V. Slobodtchikov, K. F. Wall, G. Frith, B. Samson, and A. L. G. Carter, "Tm-Doped Fiber Lasers: Fundamentals and Power Scaling", IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 15(1), 85-92 (2009).
7. M. G. Allen, "Diode laser absorption sensors for gas-dynamic and combustion flows", Meas. Sci. Technol. 9(4), 545-562 (1998).
8. F. J. Duarte, "Organic dye lasers: brief history and recent developments", Opt. Photon. News 14(10), 20-25 (2003).
9. C. Lindström, R. D. Burnham, D. R. Scifres, T. L. Paoli, and W. Streifer, "One watt CW visible single-quantumwell lasers", Electron. Lett. 19(3), 80-81 (1983).
10. Y. Nakayama, P. J. Pauzauskie, A. Radenovic, R. M. Onorato, R. J. Saykally, J. Liphardt, and P. Yang, "Tunable nanowire nonlinear optical probe", Nature 447(7148), 1098-1101 (2007).
11. 3+ doped near-infrared laser glasses, sensitized by Yb3+", Opt. Mater. 4(6), 797-810 (1995).
12. D. G. Lancaster, D. Richter, R. F. Curl, F. K. Tittel, L. Goldberg, and J. Koplow, "High-power continuous-wave mid-infrared radiation generated by difference frequency mixing of diode-laser-seeded fiber amplifiers and its application to dual-beam spectroscopy", Opt. Lett. 24(23), 1744-1746 (1999).
13. M. Schellhorn, M. Eichhorn, C. Kieleck, and A. Hirth, "High repetition rate mid-infrared laser source", C. R. Phys. 8(10), 1151-1161 (2007).
14. P. T. Rakich, Y. Fink, and M. Soljaciæ, "Efficient mid-IR spectral generation via spontaneous fifth-order cascaded-Raman amplification in silica fibers", Opt. Lett. 33(15), 1690-1692 (2008).
15. D. G. Lancaster, "Efficient Nd:YAG pumped mid-IR laser based on cascaded KTP and ZGP optical parametric oscillators and a ZGP parametric amplifier", Opt. Commun. 282(2), 272-275 (2009).
16. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic Press, 1995).
17. D. Nodop, C. Jauregui, D. Schimpf, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, "Efficient high-power generation of visible and mid-infrared light by degenerate four-wave-mixing in a large-mode-area photonic-crystal fiber", Opt. Lett. 34(22), 3499-3501 (2009).
18. L. Lavoute, J. C. Knight, P. Dupriez, and W. J. Wadsworth, "High power red and near-IR generation using four wave mixing in all integrated fibre laser systems", Opt. Express 18(15), 16193-16205 (2010).
19. M. Baumgartl, M. Chemnitz, C. Jauregui, T. Meyer, B. Dietzek, J. Popp, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, "Allfiber laser source for CARS microscopy based on fiber optical parametric frequency conversion", Opt. Express 20(4), 4484-4493 (2012).
20. A. Steinmetz, F. Jansen, F. Stutzki, R. Lehneis, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, "Sub-5-ps, multimegawatt peakpower pulses from a fiber-amplified and optically compressed passively Q-switched microchip laser", Opt. Lett. 37(13), 2550-2552 (2012).
21. F. Stutzki, F. Jansen, T. Eidam, A. Steinmetz, C. Jauregui, J. Limpert, and A. Tünnermann, "High average power large-pitch fiber amplifier with robust single-mode operation", Opt. Lett. 36(5), 689-691 (2011).