Direct amplification of femtosecond optical vortices in a single-crystal fiber

Changsheng Zheng; Tianyi Du; Lei Zhu; Zhanxin Wang; Kangzhen Tian; Yongguang Zhao; Zhiyong Yang; Haohai Yu; Valentin Petrov

doi:10.1364/PRJ.507488

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 1, 27(2024)

Direct amplification of femtosecond optical vortices in a single-crystal fiber

Changsheng Zheng¹, Tianyi Du¹, Lei Zhu¹, Zhanxin Wang¹, Kangzhen Tian^1,4, Yongguang Zhao^1、*, Zhiyong Yang¹, Haohai Yu², and Valentin Petrov³

Author Affiliations

¹Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China

²State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials and Institute of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

³Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, 12489 Berlin, Germany

⁴e-mail: kangzhentian@jsnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Oct. 4, 2023

Accepted: Oct. 31, 2023

Published Online: Dec. 14, 2023

The Author Email: Yongguang Zhao (yongguangzhao@yeah.net)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.507488

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