High Power Laser and Particle Beams, Volume. 35, Issue 9, 091005(2023)

Direct generation of ultrashort pulse sequence by optical parametric process

Wenhao Wang1, Bingjie Zhou2, Yanfang Zhang1, Jing Wang1、*, Jingui Ma1, Hao Zhang3, and Liejia Qian1,4
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  • 1School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Shanghai Radio Equipment Research Institute, Shanghai 201109, China
  • 3Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • 4Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    This paper demonstrates that the single crystal optical parametric amplification process (OPA) satisfies spectral parity-time (PT) anti-symmetry under specific boundary conditions, and the PT symmetry threshold point exhibits a gain jump property. For an OPA with phase mismatch, the PT symmetry of the system can be controlled by instantaneous adjustment of the pump intensity. Based on this property, this paper constructs an ultrafast optical switch, which can combine with amplitude modulated pump to directly convert continuous laser into an ultrashort output pulse sequence. On the other hand, the optical switch can be used for further pulse compression and is promising to be used as an ultrashort mid-infrared seed source. The proposed scheme is easy to directly generate ultrashort pulse sequence with repetition rate higher than 10 GHz because the optical resonant cavity is not required.

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    Wenhao Wang, Bingjie Zhou, Yanfang Zhang, Jing Wang, Jingui Ma, Hao Zhang, Liejia Qian. Direct generation of ultrashort pulse sequence by optical parametric process[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2023, 35(9): 091005

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    Paper Information

    Category: High Power Laser Physics and Technology

    Received: Mar. 31, 2023

    Accepted: Jul. 10, 2023

    Published Online: Oct. 17, 2023

    The Author Email: Wang Jing (wangj1118@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.11884/HPLPB202335.230069

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