Broadband Sum Frequency Generation (BB-SFG) spectrometer is a complete solution for femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy designed and manufactured by EKSPLA. System produces optically coupled femtosecond broadband midinfrared pulse covering the spectral range of the molecular "fingerprint" region and narrowband visible pulse which are directed to the sample to produce sum frequency signal. Ultrashort pulses of high intensity allow to get better signal to noise ratio using lower pulse energy thus reducing the possibility of sample modification. It is especially important for aqueous and biological samples. Single measurement can cover up to 800 cm-1 bandwidth which shortens the measurement time and lets obtaining spectrum of the same sample state at the beginning and at the end of measurement, which can be different in case of scanning. The design of BB-SFG helps to overcome the main shortcoming of common broadband SFG spectrometers: a complex and energy inefficient narrowband visible pulse channel formation. We use a single all-fiber mode-locked oscillator to generate ultrashort pulses for both broadband femtosecond mid-IR and narrowband picosecond visible channels. Up to 10 μJ energy tunable broadband (>300 cm-1) pulses in 2.5-10 μm spectral range are mixed at the sample with less than 2 cm-1 bandwidth visible (532 nm) picosecond pulses in order to produce SFG signal at kHz repetition rates. Real-time spectral scanning technique allows even broader simultaneous spectral acquisition.
A new versatile patent-pending technology enabling new operation regimes and a unique set of features in the industrialgrade 30 W-level average power femtosecond hybrid laser is introduced in this work. The developed technology, based on the use of an all-in-fiber active fiber loop (AFL), enabled to form GHz bursts of ultrashort laser pulses with any desired pulse repetition rate and any number of pulses in a burst with identical intra-burst pulse separation. Furthermore, the AFL allowed to tune pulse duration from a few hundred femtoseconds to picoseconds and even up to the nanosecond range.
In this work we present a novel concept of compact broadband high resolution sum frequency generation spectroscopy system. Multiple channel picosecond fiber laser was used as a seed for narrowband (~1.5 cm-1 ) and broadband ultrafast radiation sources. In order to achieve >500 cm-1 linewidth widely tunable microjoule-level pulses in MIR spectral region (2 - 10 μm) broadband femtosecond source optimization was performed. Numerical simulations of various schemes with different nonlinear crystals and experimental results were presented and compared.
In this work we presented a compact femtosecond high average power (35 W), high energy (35 uJ) and high pulse repetition rate (1 MHz) laser system based on efficient room-temperature Yb:YAG crystal rod double-pass power amplifier and Yb doped fiber seed laser. High fidelity nearly transform-limited pulses (330 fs) were obtained by using matched dispersion pair of chirped fiber Bragg grating (CFBG) as a pulse stretcher and 4-pass diffraction grating based pulse compressor. Residual dispersion mismatch was compensated by applying linear thermal gradient along CFBG. Presented laser system is a compact and convenient solution for various industrial and scientific applications.
A compact high-power femtosecond (~640 fs) GHz intra-burst repetition rate all-in-fiber CPA system operating at 3.26 GHz intra-burst and 200 kHz burst repetition rate regime with two configurations of large mode area (LMA and PCF) cladding-pumped Yb-doped fiber power amplifiers were presented in this work. Significantly high average power levels of 6 W (LMA fiber power amplifier) and <20 W (PCF power amplifier) were achieved which corresponded to a maximum energy of 30 μJ and <100 μJ per burst respectively. Two burst shaping layouts were introduced in this experimental setup obtaining desired burst shape using one or two acousto-optic modulators, pulse repetition rate multiplier based on a cascaded 2×2 fiber coupler sequence with a splitting ratio of 50/50 and controlled using arbitrary waveform generator. High power all-in-fiber CPA system with LMA fiber power amplifier operating at GHz burst regime was compared to the system operating at MHz pulse repetition rate regime which allowed to achieve 1.5 μJ energy pulses of good pulse quality at the output of the laser system at a repetition rate of 4 MHz.
On-chip integrated solutions employing properties of Fresnel zone plates with integrated band-pass filters for the room temperature terahertz imaging systems are discussed. Finite-difference time-domain simulations were used to predict properties of conventional zone plates and ones with resonant filter areas as flat optics components. They are produced employing the laser direct writing and characterized by electronic THz sources and an optically pumped terahertz laser. It was shown that more than one order of magnitude detection enhancement can be observed of bow-tie-shaped InGaAs-based terahertz detectors by on-chip incorporation of the secondary diffractive optics.
Optimization routes to optimize the operation of InGaAs bow-tie diodes were demonstrated using simulations based
on 3D finite-difference time-domain method. Calculations of the electromagnetic field amplitude distribution in a
detector plane were performed. Three types of designs – bow-tie diode itself, log-periodic antenna and log-periodic
antenna coupled with the bow-tie diode were analyzed; it was determined that frequency properties of such antennacoupled
device can be tuned via variation of antenna shape and size. Multi-pixel InGaAs bow-tie diodes arrays of
different designs – narrow band and broadband operation – were designed and fabricated. They were demonstrated to be
well suited for continuous wave room temperature spectroscopic terahertz imaging at 0.58 THz and at 1.63 THz.
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