中国物理B ›› 2014, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (11): 114204-114204.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/23/11/114204

• ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Fiber optical parametric oscillator based on photonic crystal fiber pumped with all-normal-dispersion mode-locked Yb:fiber laser

苟斗斗a, 杨四刚a, 张磊a, 王小建a, 陈宏伟a, 陈明华a, 谢世钟a, 陈伟b, 罗文勇b   

  1. a Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies CO. Ltd, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 收稿日期:2014-04-01 修回日期:2014-04-24 出版日期:2014-11-15 发布日期:2014-11-15
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2010CB327606), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61108007), and the Opened Fund of the State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, China.

Fiber optical parametric oscillator based on photonic crystal fiber pumped with all-normal-dispersion mode-locked Yb:fiber laser

Gou Dou-Dou (苟斗斗)a, Yang Si-Gang (杨四刚)a, Zhang Lei (张磊)a, Wang Xiao-Jian (王小建)a, Chen Hong-Wei (陈宏伟)a, Chen Ming-Hua (陈明华)a, Xie Shi-Zhong (谢世钟)a, Chen Wei (陈伟)b, Luo Wen-Yong (罗文勇)b   

  1. a Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    b FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies CO. Ltd, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Received:2014-04-01 Revised:2014-04-24 Online:2014-11-15 Published:2014-11-15
  • Contact: Yang Si-Gang E-mail:ysg@tsinghua.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2010CB327606), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61108007), and the Opened Fund of the State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, China.

摘要:

We demonstrate a cost effective, linearly tunable fiber optical parametric oscillator based on a home-made photonic crystal fiber pumped with a mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser, providing linely tuning ranges from 1018 nm to 1038 nm for the idler wavelength and from 1097 nm to 1117 nm for the signal wavelength by tuning the pump wavelength and the cavity length. In order to obtain the desired fiber with a zero dispersion wavelength around 1060 nm, eight samples of photonic crystal fibers with gradually changed structural parameters are fabricated for the reason that it is difficult to accurately customize the structural dimensions during fabrication. We verify the usability of the fabricated fiber experimentally via optical parametric generation and conclude a successful procedure of design, fabirication, and verification. A seed source of home-made all-normal-dispersion mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 38.57 ps pulsewidth around the 1064 nm wavelength is used to pump the fiber optical parametric oscillator. The wide picosecond pulse pump laser enables a larger walk-off tolerance between the pump light and the oscillating light as well as a longer photonic crystal fiber of 20 m superior to the femtosecond pulse lasers, resulting in a larger parametric amplification and a lower threshold pump power of 15.8 dBm of the fiber optical parametric oscillator.

关键词: fiber optical parametric oscillator, photonic crystal fiber, mode-locked fiber laser

Abstract:

We demonstrate a cost effective, linearly tunable fiber optical parametric oscillator based on a home-made photonic crystal fiber pumped with a mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser, providing linely tuning ranges from 1018 nm to 1038 nm for the idler wavelength and from 1097 nm to 1117 nm for the signal wavelength by tuning the pump wavelength and the cavity length. In order to obtain the desired fiber with a zero dispersion wavelength around 1060 nm, eight samples of photonic crystal fibers with gradually changed structural parameters are fabricated for the reason that it is difficult to accurately customize the structural dimensions during fabrication. We verify the usability of the fabricated fiber experimentally via optical parametric generation and conclude a successful procedure of design, fabirication, and verification. A seed source of home-made all-normal-dispersion mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with 38.57 ps pulsewidth around the 1064 nm wavelength is used to pump the fiber optical parametric oscillator. The wide picosecond pulse pump laser enables a larger walk-off tolerance between the pump light and the oscillating light as well as a longer photonic crystal fiber of 20 m superior to the femtosecond pulse lasers, resulting in a larger parametric amplification and a lower threshold pump power of 15.8 dBm of the fiber optical parametric oscillator.

Key words: fiber optical parametric oscillator, photonic crystal fiber, mode-locked fiber laser

中图分类号:  (Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers)

  • 42.65.Yj
42.70.Qs (Photonic bandgap materials) 42.55.Wd (Fiber lasers)