Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 51, Issue 10, 1014002(2022)

Applications of Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing in Ultrafast and Ultraintense Laser Technology(Invited)

Peng WANG1, Yaping XUAN1,2, Yilin XU1,2, Xiong SHEN1, Shunlin HUANG1,2, Jun LIU1,2、*, and Ruxin LI1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science,State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics,Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shanghai 201800,China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
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    Schematic mechanism of negative CFWM sideband generation[18]
    Generation of 2D and 1D signal light[21]
    Experiment setup and signal properties[22]
    Experiment setup[25]
    The intensity distribution of the signal light after the line polarizer[25]
    Multicolor concentric ultrafast vortex beam[26]
    Interferogram of the generated signal light[26]
    Experiment setup[29]
    Broadband signal generation[29]
    Experimental setup for self-diffraction signal generation[30]
    The temporal contrast of the input pulse and the signal[30]
    Spectra at 30 different positions(the inset shows the center wavelengths measured at each position)[30]
    Spectra of compensated SD signal[30]
    Schematic of the setup[31]
    The generation of the multicolored sidebands[31]
    The stability of the signal[31]
    The angular compensation of the signal[31]
    The temporal contrast curves of the input pulse(solid line)and signal(dashed line)[31]
    The experimental setup[38]
    The signal on the sCMOS[38]
    The measured temporal contrast[38]
    Correlation traces by the TOAC and FOAC with a linear plot of intensity[38]
    The temporal contrast of the 20 mJ laser pulse[38]
    The detector noise from the sCOMS and scattering noise from the SHG signals[38]
    The temporal contrast measurement results[38]
    The setup of the device[37]
    The correlation signal on the sCMOS[37]
    The measured temporal contrast and the intensity of the noise[37]
    Principle of high dynamic temporal contrast characterization[39]
    The temporal contrast curves of all three pulses at three different pulse widths[39]
    Schematic of SRSI-ETE device[39]
    Temporal contrast of the laser pulse with and without anti-saturated absorption effect[39]
    Temporal contrast curves of the input pulse with and without optical Kerr effect[39]
    Fourier transform spectral interferometry procedure[46]
    Principles of XPW,SD,TG
    Two-dimensional phase-mismatch pattern,the black solid line corresponds to zero phase mismatch[58]
    Experimental setup for SD-SRSI[58]
    Measurement results of the device [58]
    Measurement results of the device [58]
    SD spectra measured at three different positions on the beam,C0,C5,and C-5 [53]
    TG signal spectra at seven different points on the beam[59]
    Principle of TG-SRSI [59]
    Optical layout of AR-TG-SRSI [60]
    Sketch of the AR-TG-SRSI[60]
    Measurement results of the device[60]
    Setup of enhanced TG-SRSI[62]
    Characterization of femtosecond pulses at 84-MHz repetition rates [62]
    The schematic of FASI [64]
    The layout of the device [64]
    Measurement results of the device[64]
    • Table 1. Comparison of XPW,SD,and TG processes57

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      Table 1. Comparison of XPW,SD,and TG processes57

      GeometryPG(XPW)SDTG
      Sensitivity(multi-shot)~100 nJ~1 000 nJ~10 nJ
      Sensitivity(single shot)~1 μJ~10 μJ~0.1 μJ
      AdvantagesSelf-phase-matchingDeep UV capability

      Background free;Sensitive;

      Deep UV capability

      DisadvantagesRequire polarizersNon-self-phase-matchingThree beams
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    Peng WANG, Yaping XUAN, Yilin XU, Xiong SHEN, Shunlin HUANG, Jun LIU, Ruxin LI. Applications of Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing in Ultrafast and Ultraintense Laser Technology(Invited)[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(10): 1014002

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    Received: Jun. 29, 2022

    Accepted: Oct. 9, 2022

    Published Online: Nov. 30, 2022

    The Author Email: LIU Jun (jliu@zjlab.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20225110.1014002

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