EP2245509A1 - Optisch-parametrischer oszillator mit zusätzlichem verstärker im resonator - Google Patents
Optisch-parametrischer oszillator mit zusätzlichem verstärker im resonatorInfo
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- EP2245509A1 EP2245509A1 EP08871034A EP08871034A EP2245509A1 EP 2245509 A1 EP2245509 A1 EP 2245509A1 EP 08871034 A EP08871034 A EP 08871034A EP 08871034 A EP08871034 A EP 08871034A EP 2245509 A1 EP2245509 A1 EP 2245509A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
- G02F1/35—Non-linear optics
- G02F1/39—Non-linear optics for parametric generation or amplification of light, infrared or ultraviolet waves
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
- G02F1/35—Non-linear optics
- G02F1/3501—Constructional details or arrangements of non-linear optical devices, e.g. shape of non-linear crystals
- G02F1/3503—Structural association of optical elements, e.g. lenses, with the non-linear optical device
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- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
- G02F1/35—Non-linear optics
- G02F1/3501—Constructional details or arrangements of non-linear optical devices, e.g. shape of non-linear crystals
- G02F1/3507—Arrangements comprising two or more nonlinear optical devices
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
- G02F1/35—Non-linear optics
- G02F1/39—Non-linear optics for parametric generation or amplification of light, infrared or ultraviolet waves
- G02F1/392—Parametric amplification
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
- G02F2201/00—Constructional arrangements not provided for in groups G02F1/00 - G02F7/00
- G02F2201/17—Multi-pass arrangements, i.e. arrangements to pass light a plurality of times through the same element, e.g. by using an enhancement cavity
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01S—DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL
- H01S3/00—Lasers, i.e. devices using stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, visible or ultraviolet wave range
- H01S3/10—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating
- H01S3/106—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling devices placed within the cavity
- H01S3/108—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling devices placed within the cavity using non-linear optical devices, e.g. exhibiting Brillouin or Raman scattering
- H01S3/1083—Controlling the intensity, frequency, phase, polarisation or direction of the emitted radiation, e.g. switching, gating, modulating or demodulating by controlling devices placed within the cavity using non-linear optical devices, e.g. exhibiting Brillouin or Raman scattering using parametric generation
Definitions
- the invention relates to a method for operating an optical parametric oscillator, in which a Pu 'mpwelle is coupled into an optically-nonlinear element, wherein the optically-nonlinear element from the Pumpwell ⁇ at least two waves, in particular a Signafwelle and an idler wave, generated, wherein one of the waves is coupled out of the S-ray path and is in turn resonantly coupled via a feedback path into the optically non-linear element.
- the invention also relates to a system for implementing the method.
- OPOs optical parametric oscillators
- Such optical parametric oscillators offer the possibility of changing monochromatic laser light in its frequency and of "tuning through” it over a certain range, a laser light which can be continuously tuned in its color and thus in its frequency for many applications
- the function of OPOs is described in textbooks, which is in principle such that a pump wave with the frequency f p is irradiated in an optically non-linear medium, in particular in a crystal or in a waveguide, wherein the The sum of the frequencies of signal wave f s and idler wave / j corresponds exactly to f p
- One of the waves is decoupled and fed back into the medium via the feedback path.
- the entire beam guidance with the medium and the remindk ⁇ ppelst The device forms an optical resonator. In the resonator increases with each pass through the medium the 0700201 LAP1
- OPOs are used, for example, for spectroscopic purposes.
- the minimum value for the parametric amplification thus depends essentially on the non-linear coefficient of the amplifying medium, the length of the medium and the light output of the pump source used.
- the non-linear coefficient is a material-specific parameter and therefore can not be varied arbitrarily.
- the length of the non-linear medium can not be arbitrarily erhqhen for technical reasons.
- the minimum value for the parametric amplification by the power of the pump light must be achieved by exceeding a threshold value, the so-called pumping threshold.
- the pump source must have a narrow frequency width.
- Object of the present invention is to provide a method for operating a particular simple-resonant optical parametric oscillator, with which the pumping threshold can be lowered, so that the OPO can pump with simple and inexpensive light sources relatively low power.
- the Ker ⁇ igedanke essential to the invention is to provide a separate amplifier in the feedback path and to actively amplify in its amplitude the wave located in the resonator with this.
- the present invention thus provides a novel approach for reducing the pumping threshold of OPOs by introducing a power amplifying element into the resonator. By significantly lowering the pumping threshold from originally more than 1 watt to much less than 1 watt, it is also possible to use light sources with lower light output for pumping an OPO.
- the inventive concept for lowering the pumping threshold of optical parametric oscillators is thus not based on minimizing the losses in the resonator, but instead compensating for them by additional amplification.
- the very special advantage of the invention is that now instead of the previously used structurally complex and expensive pump lasers with a few watts of power for the price of several 10,000, - ⁇ simple semiconductor lasers, especially laser diodes, with less than 1 watt, especially from currently something more than 0.5 watts, and correspondingly lower price can be used as a pump source, which makes OPOs above all much more compact and cheaper. Also, the resonator located in the amplifier can be realized with simple and compact means. 0700201 LAP1
- optical amplifiers and semiconductor amplifiers can be used.
- an optical amplifier uses materials which, as known from lasers, amplify light of a certain frequency upon introduction of energy.
- the energy input of these materials need not be optical.
- no particularly narrow frequency width is necessary.
- an optical energy input in the form of a second pump shaft is used.
- the additional amplifier according to the invention is to be designed so that it amplifies the wave resonant in an optical parametric oscillator with energy input and that the losses it suffers are compensated. The total profit for the wave therefore stems from the gain on the one hand from the additional gain according to the invention and, on the other hand, from the optical parametric gain.
- the concept according to the invention can advantageously be used in singly resonant OPOs.
- Such a "hybrid-pumped" optical parametric oscillator thus combines the special advantage of the single-resonant OPOs, namely the uncomplicated frequency stabilization, with the 0700201 LAP1
- the complete resonator is realized in a correspondingly cut monoliths prepared on end surfaces.
- a periodically poled crystal for generating signal wave and idler wave, mirrors, free-wheeling distances and the additional amplifier can be realized.
- the monolithic construction initially has the advantage of a particularly compact design. However, it is particularly advantageous that the component located in the resonator can scarcely misalign against one another.
- the additional amplifier according to the invention is pumped by an incoherent light source or by a simple laser diode.
- favorable laser diodes with quite high power but poor beam quality can be used.
- Some materials are suitable as "pumpable" materials for the additional amplifier, it being advantageous to use erbium or neodymium-doped glass (SiO 2 ) or crystals, and also ytterbium and yttrium-aluminum garnet can serve as doping for the additional amplifier.
- the choice of materials is advantageously made dependent on the desired frequency range of the wave to be amplified.
- the optical parametric oscillator according to the invention for the generation of radiation in the frequency range between 0.1 and 10 THz (10 12 Hz).
- the generated waves ie in particular the signal wave
- This terahertz area will become increasingly interesting for communication in the future because of the high transmission rates.
- Terahertz's frequency range involves intermolecular vibrations or rotational vibrational motion of molecules, so terahertz radiation is of interest for spectroscopy and astronomy.
- 0700201 LAP1 for medical applications, for example for analysis 0700201 LAP1
- FIG. 1 is a diagram of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and
- FIG. 1 outlines the principle of an OPO.
- a pump shaft 1 originating from a Yb: YAG solid-state laser with a wavelength of 1030 nm and a maximum output power of 20 W (TEM 00 singlemode, single frequency) is coupled via a focusing concave mirror 2 into a resonator with a closed light path.
- a nonlinear medium 3 is positioned, which in this case is periodically poled and magnesium-doped lithium niobate, with which a phase matching is possible.
- a signal wave 4 with approximately 1550 nm is generated in the medium 3 from the pump wave.
- the associated Idlerwellentate 5 is in the range of 3 microns.
- the pumping threshold of such an OPO is about 1 W (see FIG. 2, black curve "without glass”).
- a concave mirror 6 is arranged, which due to its highly reflective characteristic for the signal wave and the anti-reflection coating for the pump and Idlerwelle only the signal wave 4 reflects, while it decouples the Idlerwelle and the pump shaft 1.
- the reflected from the concave mirror 6 signal wave 4 strikes a first plane mirror 7 and is reflected by this on a second plane mirror 8.
- the second plane mirror 8 in turn reflects on the concave mirror 2, so that the light path closes via the feedback. Due to the geometry of this folded 0700201 LAP1
- Ring resonator there is a focus of the resonant wave between the two concave mirrors 2 and 6 and another between the plane mirrors 7 and 8th
- an additional amplifier 9 is introduced into the resonator, here formed by an erbium-ytterbium-doped glass of 4 mm thickness whose surfaces are antireflection-coated for the signal wavelengths.
- the second pump wave is collinearly coupled to the resonant light, so that a good overlap between the two beams in the amplifier 9 ensures and the stimulated emission and thus the amplification of the signal wave is favored.
- a fiber-coupled laser diode of wavelength 940 nm with a spectral bandwidth of 5 nm, a maximum output power of 7 W and a low beam quality is used,
- a de-excitation of these states can be carried out via stimulated emission at about 1550 nm with the aid of the signal photons so that the signal wave is amplified.
- FIG. 2 plots values for the pumping threshold as a function of the signal wavelength for various output powers of the diode 10.
- the pump threshold for the simple OPO without absorbent glass is consistently about 1 W, as curve 11 shows.
- integration of the amplifier causes the pumping threshold to increase, but with a "gain power" of 1.1 W, a significant reduction in the signal wave range between about 1530 nm and 1570 nm takes place. It can be seen that this arrangement makes it possible to reduce the pumping threshold to a few 10 milliwatts, the limit shown here corresponding to the detection limit of the measuring device used. In principle, the threshold can still go far 0700201 LAP1
- the OPO remains tunable over the gain range of the lens. In this case, this means that signal wavelengths between 1535 and 1568 nm can be achieved with less pump power than before. This corresponds to idler wavelengths in the range of 3140 to 3010 nm. By other pump wavelengths or else. other auxiliary amplifiers allow these wavelengths to be further varied.
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| DE102008004897A DE102008004897A1 (de) | 2008-01-17 | 2008-01-17 | Hybridgepumpter optisch-parametrischer Oszillator |
| PCT/DE2008/001847 WO2009089808A1 (de) | 2008-01-17 | 2008-11-08 | Optisch-parametrischer oszillator mit zusätzlichem verstärker im resonator |
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| HAIM ABITAN ET AL: "Laser resonators with several mirrors and lenses with the bow-tie laser resonator with compensation for astigmatism and thermal lens effects as an example; Laser resonators with several mirrors", JOURNAL OF OPTICS. A, PURE AND APPLIED OPTICS, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING, BRISTOL, GB, vol. 7, no. 1, 1 January 2005 (2005-01-01), pages 7 - 20, XP020092988, ISSN: 1464-4258, DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/7/1/002 * |
| See also references of WO2009089808A1 * |
| WALTER R. BOSENBERG ET AL.: "93% pump depletion, 3.5-W continuous-wave, singly resonant optical parametric oscillator", OPTICS LETTERS, vol. 21, no. 17, 1 September 1996 (1996-09-01), United States, pages 1336 - 1338, XP055155318, Retrieved from the Internet <URL:http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-21-17-1336> * |
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