Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 7, 0736001(2020)
Difference-Frequency Generation of Mid-Infrared Picosecond Laser by Pulse Synchronization Technology Based on All Polarization-Maintaining Fibers
An all-optical passive synchronous laser with master-slave configuration is built, the output power of the master laser pulse is amplified and injected into the slave laser, and the pulse synchronization between 1029.9 nm pump light and 1585.5 nm signal light is realized by using the cross-phase modulation effect of the injected pulse in the slave laser. An acousto-optic modulator used for frequency selection together with a cascade fiber amplifier enhances the peak power of pump pulse. In addition, the optimization of fiber link length effectively controls the spectral width broadening effect of pump pulse. The two-color synchronized pulse is processed via nonlinear difference frequency in PPLN crystal. When the repetition rate is set as 100 kHz, a linearly polarized picosecond pulse is achieved with 3-dB spectral width of 0.77 nm, central wavelength of 2940 nm, the maximum single pulse energy of 1.8 μJ , and pump light conversion efficiency of 49.6%.
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Xiaolei Hu, Jiwei Gan, Zhanjun Yang, Jing Zeng, Hang Gong, Kun Huang, Qiang Hao, Heping Zeng. Difference-Frequency Generation of Mid-Infrared Picosecond Laser by Pulse Synchronization Technology Based on All Polarization-Maintaining Fibers[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2020, 40(7): 0736001
Category: Letters
Received: Dec. 23, 2019
Accepted: Feb. 26, 2020
Published Online: Apr. 15, 2020
The Author Email: Hao Qiang (qianghao@usst.edu.cn)