EP2561406A1 - Parametric oscillator and method for generating ultra-short pulses - Google Patents
Parametric oscillator and method for generating ultra-short pulsesInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a parametric oscillator according to the preamble of claim 1, and to a corresponding method for generating ultrashort laser pulses.
- Ultrashort laser pulses also known as femtosecond pulses, have a duration (FWHM) of less than one picosecond. Accordingly, a typical pulse duration of an ultrashort pulse laser is for example 100 to 200 femtoseconds (fs).
- fs femtoseconds
- a high gain bandwidth laser active crystal is typically used in a resonator.
- the laser-active crystal is generated by pumping, for example by means of pump laser radiation, inversion.
- pump laser radiation By mode-locking the radiation emitted by the laser crystal by stimulated emission, ultrashort laser pulses are generated which circulate in the resonator.
- Dispersion compensation means in the resonator compensate for the dispersion of the laser pulses occurring during passage through the laser crystal, so that the pulse duration does not increase.
- a laser-active crystal with high gain bandwidth is often titanium sapphire (Ti: Sa, Ti 3+ : Al 2 0 3 ) is used.
- a disadvantage of conventional methods and laser systems for generating ultrashort pulses is, inter alia, that the operation of these laser systems is susceptible to interference, that only comparatively moderate mean laser powers can be achieved, and that the available wavelength ranges of the ultrashort laser pulses are limited by the emission bandwidth of the laser crystals ,
- the object of the present invention is to provide a laser system and a method for generating ultrashort laser pulses with structurally simple means as possible, with which one or more of the abovementioned disadvantages are avoided.
- an optically non-linear crystal is used in the resonator as the laser crystal, which is configured to generate a signal and an idler photon from a pump photon by means of an optical parametric process.
- a crystal is optically nonlinear if it has a non-linear, ie intensity-dependent, polarizability or susceptibility. Due to its optical non-linearity, the amplifier crystal is able to take place an optical parametric process in which signal and idler radiation is generated by the non-linear three-wave interaction of the pump laser radiation.
- the resonator is arranged so that a signal pulse formed from the signal photons (and / or an idler pulse formed from the idler photons) leaves the amplifier crystal along the optical axis of the resonator.
- the signal radiation (and / or the idler radiation) is fed back as in the case of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO), so that the radiation circulating in the resonator can be further amplified during each subsequent passage through the amplifier crystal.
- OPO optical parametric oscillator
- the advantage of the parametric oscillator according to the invention lies in the fact that very short pulse durations (in the range of a few femtoseconds to a few tens of femtoseconds) can be produced at higher average laser powers than in previous systems.
- a considerable advantage lies in the fact that the wavelengths of the ultrashort laser pulses are no longer limited by the emission bandwidth of a laser-active crystal, but depending on the selection and orientation of the amplifier crystal almost any wavelengths can be provided.
- an optically non-linear amplifier crystal with a high gain bandwidth for example, a barium-beta-borate crystal (BBO crystal), or a periodically or aperiodisch polarized crystal, for example, a periodically or aperiodisch (eg .chirped ') polarized lithium niobate Crystal.
- BBO crystal barium-beta-borate crystal
- a periodically or aperiodisch polarized crystal for example, a periodically or aperiodisch (eg .chirped ') polarized lithium niobate Crystal.
- Another alternative is a crystal operated at or near the degenerating point. At the degeneracy point, a crystal is operated when the wavelengths of signal and idler radiation are the same in the optical parametric process.
- the phase matching angle between the pump laser radiation and the signal radiation depends on the amplifier used. crystal off.
- the pump laser radiation is directed non-collinearly to the optical axis of the resonator on the amplifier crystal.
- the internal phase matching angle is 2.4 °. If the pump laser radiation is directed onto the amplifier crystal at this angle to the optical axis, the phase matching condition is optimally fulfilled.
- the pump laser system has a pump laser and a frequency conversion stage, for example a frequency doubling stage.
- the pump laser radiation receives photons of higher energy, so that the signal radiation generated by the optical parametric process includes higher energy photons.
- the frequency conversion stage it can be achieved by the frequency conversion stage that the pump laser radiation is in a wavelength range in which the nonlinear susceptibility of the amplifier crystal is particularly high, so that the efficiency of the optical parametric process is particularly high.
- the pump laser radiation is pulsed laser radiation, for example ultrashort laser pulses.
- pulsed laser radiation for example ultrashort laser pulses.
- high peak intensities can be achieved to increase the efficiency of the optical parametric process.
- the optical length of the resonator should be chosen such that the cycle time of the signal pulse in the resonator (or an integer multiple of this cycle time) corresponds as closely as possible to the time interval between two pulses of the pump laser radiation. This ensures that the signal pulse is superimposed again exactly with a pump pulse after one or more cycles in the resonator.
- the optical parametric process caused by the new pump pulse in the amplifier crystal now amplifies the signal pulse circulating in the resonator.
- the efficiency of the optical-parametric process is higher because the process can start from the signal pulse and no longer has to start from the noise.
- a pair of optical wedges, a pair of prisms and / or one or more dispersion-compensating mirrors may be provided as dispersion compensation means for at least partially compensating the dispersion of the radiation circulating in the resonator, if at all possible.
- Couples of optical wedges or prisms have the advantage that the degree of dispersion compensation can be adjusted depending on their position relative to one another.
- an end mirror of the resonator may be mounted on a translation stage or on a corresponding actuator on which it is movable along the optical axis of the resonator.
- the displacement table can be driven, for example, piezoelectrically with nanometer precision.
- this mirror preferably has a reflection bandwidth of at least one octave, i. H. a reflectance of 99% or more over a frequency range from a first frequency f to twice the frequency 2f. In this way, more modes of the laser radiation can be excited in the resonator, so that shortens the pulse duration of the laser radiation generated.
- a frequency conversion means for converting the frequency of the signal pulse may be provided within the resonator of the parametric oscillator. While the non-frequency-doubled signal radiation continues to circulate in the resonator, the frequency-doubled radiation could be coupled out of the resonator directly via a coupling-out mirror. For the non-frequency doubled, the reflective elements of the resonator could then ideally have a reflectance of 100% to prevent losses of signal radiation from the resonator.
- the invention also relates to a method for generating ultrashort laser pulses.
- pump photon-containing, coherent pump laser radiation is directed onto an optically non-linear amplifier crystal arranged in an optical resonator so that a signal and an idler photon are generated in the amplifier crystal by means of an opto-parametric process from a pump photon.
- the signal photons form a signal pulse circulating in the resonator.
- the dispersion of the radiation circulating in the resonator is compensated for at least partially, if possible completely, by dispersion compensation means.
- the signal pulse circulating in the resonator is particularly strongly amplified when the arrival of a pulse of the pulsed pump laser radiation at the amplifier crystal is synchronized in time with the arrival of the signal pulse circulating in the resonator at the amplifier crystal.
- This synchronization can be achieved by the resonator length leads to a cycle time of the signal pulse, which corresponds as closely as possible to the time interval between two (adjacent or non-adjacent) pulses of Pumplaserstrahlung.
- a frequency conversion of the signal pulse in particular a frequency doubling, can be carried out within the resonator.
- any loss of the non-frequency-converted signal radiation from the resonator can be prevented, while only the frequency-converted component is coupled out.
- the ultrashort laser pulses generated by the system according to the invention or by the method according to the invention can be described as a mode comb.
- Af is the mode spacing of adjacent modes, which exactly corresponds to the pulse repetition frequency, ie the repetition rate, of the resonator and which is therefore determined by the optical path length of the pulses in the resonator.
- the offset frequency f 0 results from the fact that the group velocity for the oscillating pulses in the oscillator, which determines the repetition rate and thus the mode spacing Af, differs from the phase velocity of the individual modes.
- the stabilizer can drive an actuator, which changes the optical path length of the oscillator and thus the pulse repetition frequency.
- the actuator may be a linear drive or a piezoelectric actuator for a resonator mirror of the resonator.
- the single FIGURE shows an embodiment of the system according to the invention or (in the present document synonymous :) parametric oscillator 1.
- a pump laser 2 and a frequency doubling stage 3 together form a pump laser system 4 of the inventive oscillator or system 1.
- the pump laser 2 is a mode-locked infrared pump laser.
- the frequency doubling stage 3 for example a frequency doubling crystal, the frequency of the laser radiation generated by the pump laser 2 is doubled.
- the pump laser system 4 may still have an amplifier stage.
- the radiation generated by the pump laser system 4 has an average power of about 10 W at a central wavelength of 520 nm.
- the pulse repetition frequency is about 35 MHz, the pulse duration 500 fs.
- the coherent pump laser radiation 5 emerging from the pump laser system 4 is deflected via deflecting or pumping mirrors 6, 7, which are highly reflective for the pump laser radiation 5.
- the pump laser radiation 5 passes through a focusing element 8, for example a focusing lens.
- the focusing element 8 focuses the pump laser radiation 5 to a focus which is close to the surface or inside of an optically nonlinear crystal 9.
- the amplifier crystal 9 is located in a resonator 10.
- the amplifier crystal 9 has a high nonlinear susceptibility and is configured to generate a signal and idler photon by means of an optical parametric process from a pump photon of the pump laser radiation 5 by means of three-wave mixing.
- a first end mirror M1 of the resonator 10 is connected to an actuator, in particular a piezoelectric actuator, to be displaced along the optical axis 11 of the resonator 10 with nanometer precision. This movement is indicated by a double arrow. By shifting the end mirror M1, the resonator length is changed. This causes a change in the cycle time of the signal pulse in the resonator 10 and a change in the mode spacing ⁇ of the mode comb leaving the parametric oscillator 1.
- the second and third resonator mirrors M2, M3 are designed as concave mirrors in order to focus the signal pulses circulating in the resonator 10 or to collimate them after passing through the amplifier crystal 9.
- the focus formed by the two concave mirrors M2, M3 lies in the interior of the crystal 9, in particular at the location of the focus laser pump 5 formed by the focusing optics 8. In this way, the efficiency of the optical parametric process in the amplifier crystal 9 is increased.
- the signal pulse circulating in the resonator 9 reaches an outcoupling mirror OC.
- a part of the signal pulses circulating in the resonator 10 leaves the resonator 10 through the outcoupling mirror OC in the form of ultrashort laser pulses or in the form of a mode comb 12.
- the first four resonator mirrors M1 to M4 are dispersion-compensating mirrors which support bandwidths of up to one octave or more, i. H. have an extremely high reflectivity over a frequency range from a frequency f to at least twice the frequency 2f.
- the dispersion-compensating mirrors support the formation of ultrashort laser pulses in the resonator 10.
- the mirrors M1 to M4 may be so-called "chirped mirrors” or “double chirped mirrors” or “double-chirped mirror pairs”.
- optical wedge substrates W1, W2 are arranged obliquely to the optical axis 11 of the resonator 10 and can be displaced in their own main axis in the longitudinal direction. In this way, the wedge substrates W1, W2 serve to finely adjust the dispersion compensation in the resonator 10.
- the pump-Einstrahlgeometrie non-collinear d. H.
- the pump laser radiation 5 impinges on the crystal 9 at an angle ⁇ not equal to 0 ° to the optical axis 11 of the resonator 10.
- the angle 4 serves for phase matching between the pump laser radiation 5 and the crystal 9 in the direction of the optical axis 11 of the resonator 10 leaving signal radiation.
- the angle ⁇ is 2.4 °.
- the pump laser 2 In the method according to the invention or during operation of the parametric oscillator 1 according to the invention, the pump laser 2 generates femtosecond laser pulses. their frequency is doubled in the frequency conversion stage 3.
- the pump laser radiation 5 is directed via the mirrors 6, 7 at the angle ⁇ to the optical axis 11 of the resonator, ie in non-collinear Einstrahlgeometrie, the amplifier crystal 9). In this case, the pump laser radiation 5 is focused by means of the focusing optics 8 on or in the crystal 9.
- an optical parametric process takes place.
- a signal photon and an idler photon are formed from a pump photon of the pump laser radiation 5.
- the signal photons leave the amplifier crystal 9 along the optical axis 11 of the resonator 10. Together, the signal photons form a broadband, d. H. ultrashort laser pulse, which circulates as a signal pulse in the resonator 10.
- the dispersion of the signal pulse is limited or compensated by the dispersion compensation means, in the present embodiment the dispersion-compensating mirrors M1 to M4 and the optical wedges W1, W2, in order to prevent the signal pulse from divergence.
- a part of the signal pulse is coupled out at the coupling-out mirror OC as laser radiation 12 in the form of ultrashort laser pulses.
- the repetition rate of the pump laser 2 corresponds to the repetition rate of the signal pulse in the resonator 10, which is determined by the optical length of the resonator 10.
- the repetition rate of the resonator 10 may be an integer multiple of the repetition rate of the pump laser 2. In this way, it is ensured that a pulse of the pump laser radiation 5 arrives simultaneously with a signal pulse at the amplifier crystal 9 so as to increase the efficiency of the optical parametric process and to further amplify the signal pulse each time the amplifier crystal 9 passes through.
- the position of the end mirror M1 of the resonator 10 can be changed in order to change the resonator length and thus the repetition rate of the resonator 10, so that this repetition rate can be matched to the repetition rate of the pump laser 2. It would also be conceivable to be able to adapt the repetition rate of the pump laser 2.
- the signal radiation generated by the parametric oscillator 1 according to the invention in the present embodiment has an average power of approximately 600 mW, a wavelength of 800 nm and a pulse duration of slightly less than 200 fs, for example 190 fs.
- the inventive parametric oscillator and the method according to the invention can be varied in many ways.
- a BBO crystal another crystal can also be used as the non-linear centering crystal 9.
- a collinear single-beam geometry would also be conceivable in which the pump laser radiation 5 reaches the amplifier crystal 9 collinearly with the optical axis 11 of the resonator 10.
- a second amplifier crystal of the same or another type in the resonator 10 which realizes a second gain stage either by a classical laser process or by a further optical parametric process.
- This second amplifier crystal could be pumped by the same pump laser 2, possibly with a different frequency conversion stage, that is, for example, in the frequency-tripled pump laser radiation.
- a frequency conversion means would be provided in the resonator 10, for example a frequency doubling crystal.
- the frequency-doubled signal pulse would be coupled out via the output coupling mirror, while the non-frequency-doubled component of the signal pulse would remain 100% in the resonator 10.
- a stabilizer could also be provided to stabilize one or both degrees of freedom of the mode comb leaving the parametric oscillator 1.
- the pulse train of the signal or idler pho- tons emitted by the parametric oscillator 1 can be used, for example, as an example. used as a fashion comb for precision frequency metrology.
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