Tightly locked optical frequency comb from a semiconductor disk laser

被引：26

作者：

Waldburger, D. ^{[1
]}

Mayer, A. S. ^{[1
]}

Alfieri, C. G. E. ^{[1
]}

Nurnberg, J. ^{[1
]}

Johnson, A. R. ^{[2
]}

Ji, X. ^{[3
]}

Klenner, A. ^{[2
]}

Okawachi, Y. ^{[2
]}

Lipson, M. ^{[3
]}

Gaeta, A. L. ^{[2
]}

Keller, U. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Quantum Elect, Dept Phys, Auguste Piccard Hof 1, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

[2] Columbia Univ, Dept Appl Phys & Appl Math, New York, NY 10027 USA

[3] Columbia Univ, Dept Elect Engn, New York, NY 10027 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2019年 / 27卷 / 03期

基金：

瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; PHASE-CONTROL; POWER; NOISE; EFFICIENCY; DYNAMICS; GHZ;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.27.001786

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Ultrafast semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) passively modelocked using semiconductor saturable absorbers mirrors (SESAMs) generate optical frequency combs (OFCs) with gigahertz line spacings - a regime where solid-state and fiber lasers struggle with geometrical and Q-switching limitations. We stabilized both the frequency comb spacing and the offset without any additional external optical amplification or pulse compression. The overall noise performance is competitive with other gigahertz OFCs. A SESAM-modelocked vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) at a center wavelength around 1 mu m generates 122-fs pulses with 160 mW average output power and we only needed 17-pJ pulse energy coupled into a silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide for supercontinuum generation (SCG) and OFC offset stabilization. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

引用

页码：1786 / 1797

页数：12

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