WO1998053536A1 - Ultrashort pulse laser with multiply-folded resonant cavity - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates in general to lasers which provide ultrafast (ultrashort) pulses having a width of about 500 femtoseconds (fs) or less.
- the invention relates in particular to a laser having a resonant cavity containing at least one pair of fold-mirrors having a peak- reflectivity greater than 99.97 percent and arranged to cause multiple reflections therebetween of laser-light circulating in the resonant cavity.
- L cavity is the actual linear length of the cavity.
- F is about seventy-five megahertz (75 MHz) .
- a passively mode-locked, ultrafast laser for example, a Kerr-lens mode-locked titanium-doped sapphire (Ti : sapphire) laser
- a round-trip time i.e, a frequency at which it can be operated.
- the energy per pulse and the pulse separation is directly proportional to the length of the laser's resonant cavity.
- a laser having a cavity length of about 2 m or more is simply not practical.
- a practical length is about thirty centimeters (cm) or less. In certain applications a length of 10 cm may be desirable. To "fold" a 2 m long cavity, using multiple reflections, to obtain a 10 cm longest physical dimension would require more than twenty reflections, i.e., more than forty reflections per round trip in the cavity.
- Commercially available laser reflectors are typically vacuum deposited by thermal evaporation of layer-forming materials. Such mirrors typically have a maximum reflection of about 99.8%, or, where special precautions are taken to reduce loss, of about 99.9%.
- total cavity GVD In a simple arrangement of a laser cavity and dielectric material therein, such as, a gain medium and a mode locking device, total cavity GVD would be positive, i.e., shorter wavelength light experiences a higher refractive index and lower group velocity and lags behind longer wavelength light. This causes lengthening of a laser pulse each round trip and prevents stable, short-pulse operation..
- the NGVD devices must be effective over that range of wavelengths.
- Reflective NGVD devices which have been used with prior art ultrafast lasers include Gires-Tournois Interferometer (GTI) mirrors, and so called “chirped” mirrors, all of which are multilayer dielectric interference layer structures, typically vacuum deposited by thermal evaporation of materials from electron-beam heated, or resistance- heated sources . Reflective NGVD devices are referred to hereinafter as NGVD-mirrors.
- GTI Gires-Tournois Interferometer
- a GTI mirror is a multilayer NGVD-mirror including a reflector, comprising a stack of alternating high and low refractive index dielectric layers, each layer having a thickness of one-quarter wavelength at the nominal operating wavelength of the laser, and a single thick "spacer" layer (typically may wavelengths thick) of a dielectric material deposited on the reflector.
- a partially reflecting multilayer stack may (optionally) be deposited on the spacer layer.
- a GTI-mirror typically gives a constant negative GVD over only a relatively narrow wavelength range, for example about fifty nanometers (nm) .
- a so-called chirped mirror is a multilayer stack alternating high and low refractive index dielectric layers, the layers being varied in thickness throughout the stack, to different degrees, about a nominal quarter- wavelength optical thickness at a nominal laser wavelength.
- This type of mirror may also be termed a simply a negative dispersion mirror (NDM) , a term which is hereinafter used to describe any NGVD-mirror structure which is not a GTI- mirror.
- NDM negative dispersion mirror
- Such a mirror can provide constant NGVD over a broader band of wavelengths than a GTI mirror, for example, up to about 200 nm with the same GVD.
- Such a NDM may include as many as forty- five or more layers .
- NGVD-mirrors A common goal of all NGVD-mirrors, however designed and named, is to cause longer wavelengths in a given pulse, i.e., in the bandwidth of the pulse, to take a longer time to be reflected than shorter wavelengths in that pulse. This is achieved, in a NDM, primarily by the large total thickness of the multilayer structure. This total thickness may be three or more times the thickness required to provide a simple 99.8% reflecting multilayer mirror. In a GTI-mirror this is achieved by resonant behavior of electric fields in the spacer layer. This resonant behavior exacerbates any inherent losses in the spacer layer.
- the present invention is directed to providing an ultrafast laser having a long resonant cavity for providing a high pulse-energy but which occupies a physical space having a length significantly less, for example about an order of magnitude less, than the path-length of resonant cavity.
- laser apparatus in accordance with the present invention, comprises first and second end mirrors forming a resonant cavity for laser-light.
- a laser gain medium is located in the resonant cavity.
- fold-mirrors are also included in the resonant cavity.
- the fold-mirrors are cooperatively aligned with the first and second end mirrors such that laser-light circulating in the resonant cavity is reflected by the fold-mirrors in a zig-zag path therebetween.
- the fold-mirrors each have a peak reflectivity greater than 99.97%, and preferably have a peak reflectivity greater than 99.99%
- one or more of the fold-mirrors may be a NGVD-mirror.
- Laser-light reflected from any one of the NGVD- mirrors is defined as having undergone a NGVD- reflection.
- at least two of the fold- mirrors are NGVD-mirrors and are aligned with respect to each other such that laser- light following the zig-zag path undergoes at least eight NGVD-reflections in travelling from one end mirror to the other, i.e, at least sixteen NGVD-reflections per round-trip between the end mirrors.
- the NGVD-mirrors are aligned such that the circulating laser- light undergoes at least sixteen NGVD-reflections per round-trip between the end mirrors.
- Providing a large number of negative- dispersion reflections per round trip provides that negative dispersion devices can be arranged to provide the resonant cavity with net negative GVD over a relatively broad range of wavelengths, since the magnitude of negative GVD is generally inversely related to the bandwidth of negative GVD.
- fold-mirrors including NGVD-mirrors are formed from a plurality of layers of dielectric material deposited by ion-beam sputtering.
- the ion- beam- sputter-deposited layers are preferably deposited on a substrate having a surface micro- roughness less than about 0.5 nm RMS.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view schematically illustrating one arrangement of laser apparatus in accordance with the present invention including a resonant cavity, and fold-mirrors for folding the resonant cavity to shorten overall length of the apparatus.
- FIG. 2 is a graph schematically illustrating details of arrangement of layers in a fifty layer NDM mirror structure used for NGVD-mirrors in a laser in accordance with the arrangement of FIG. 1.
- FIG. 3 is a graph schematically illustrating group dispersion delay as a function of wavelength for the NGVD mirror of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 4 is a graph schematically illustrating lasing wavelengths and corresponding bandwidths in a laser arrangement of FIG. 1 including two NGVD- mirrors having the layer arrangement of FIG. 2.
- FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a laser apparatus 10 in accordance with the present invention.
- a folded resonator cavity 12 is terminated at opposite ends thereof by end- mirrors 14 and 16.
- Located within cavity 12 are four fold- mirrors 18, 20, 22 and 24, arranged in pairs, and two focussing mirrors 26 and 28.
- a gain medium (crystal) 30 Between focussing mirrors 26 and 28 is a gain medium (crystal) 30.
- a slit 34 between fold-mirror 20 and end-mirror 14 is provided for forcing mode- locked operation of laser 10.
- Focussing mirrors 28 and 26 are concave mirrors preferably having the same focal length, and preferably being confocally arranged, with Crystal 30 is preferably located at a greater distance from focussing-mirror 28 than from focussing-mirror 26.
- Either end mirror 14 or end-mirror 16 may be used an output-coupling mirror (outcoupler) for the cavity, with the other used as a maximum reflector.
- mirror 16 is depicted as the outcoupler and, as such is partially transmissive at the laser- light wavelength.
- End mirror 14 is maximally reflective at the laser-light wavelength.
- Laser light circulating in cavity 12 follows a zigzag path 32 between in proceeding from one end mirror to the other.
- Fold-mirrors 18, 20, 22, and 24 each include a multilayer interference coating (not shown in FIG. 1) which provides a peak-reflectivity for laser- light equal to or greater than 99.97%, and preferably greater than 99.99%.
- the coating on any one of these fold mirrors may have a layer arrangement which provides above-discussed NGVD characteristics .
- Focussing mirror 26 is preferably maximally reflective for the laser-light, preferably having a peak-reflectivity for the laser-light greater than 99.97% and more preferably greater than 99.99%.
- Focussing mirror 28 is preferably maximally reflective for laser-light, and maximally transmissive for pump-light 35.
- Pump-light 35 is used for exciting gain-crystal 30 and is preferably provided by a laser 36 via polarizing optics 38 and focussing optics 40.
- a filter element 42 for example, a birefringent filter, is included in cavity 12 for lasing wavelength selection or "tuning" .
- End mirrors 14 and 16, fold-mirrors 18, 20, 22, and 24, and focussing mirrors 26 and 28 are cooperatively aligned such that laser-light 32 circulating in resonant cavity 12 follows a zig-zag path between the fold-mirrors . This serves to greatly reduce the overall length of laser apparatus 10. Further, if any one of fold-mirrors 29 and 30 are negative dispersion mirrors, this provides that laser-light 32 may undergo multiple NGVD-reflections (one NGVD-reflection at each fold-reflection from a NGVD-mirror) in travelling from one end-mirror to the other.
- Apparatus 10 as illustrated in FIG. 1 provides sixteen fold-reflections in one pass or transit of laser-light from mirror 22 to mirror 24, i.e., thirty-two fold reflections per round trip from one mirror to the other and back. If all fold-mirrors 30 are NGVD-mirrors, this provides sixteen NGVD- reflections per pass, i.e., thirty-two NGVD- reflections per round trip.
- Cavity components are cooperatively aligned such that fold mirrors provide an equal number of fold-reflections between each end mirror and its corresponding (closest) focussing mirror. This makes the arrangement of cavity 12 essentially symmetrical. Symmetrical cavities are preferred for ultrafast laser systems . It should be noted here that the symmetrical cavity arrangement of laser apparatus 12 is not essential in a laser apparatus in accordance with the present invention. Advantages of multiple fold- reflections or multiple NGVD-reflections may be obtained if such reflections take place only between fold mirrors located between one end-mirror and its corresponding focussing mirror, or in unequal numbers between fold mirrors located between both end mirrors and corresponding focussing mirrors.
- NGVD-reflections it is the number of fold-reflections or NGVD-reflections possible in apparatus in accordance with the present invention that differ it from prior-art ultrafast lasers, rather than the number of fold-mirrors, NGVD-mirrors or type thereof which are used to effect those reflections.
- Simple fold-mirrors usually comprise only layers having an optical-thickness of about one-quarter wavelength at the wavelength at which peak reflectivity is desired (usually at the angle of incidence and for the particular polarization with which the mirror will be used) .
- the term simple, here infers that the mirrors are required only to have a high reflection for laser light, and are not required to have a particular GVD. Layer arrangements of such simple fold-mirrors are well- known in the art to which the present invention pertains. Accordingly, an illustration of such a layer arrangement is not provided herein.
- the magnitude of constant negative GVD possible in a NGVD-mirror is generally inversely related to the bandwidth of the negative- dispersion.
- maximum GVD values of about -50fs2 and -10fs 2 equate to bandwidths (FWHM) of about 65 nm and 140 nm respectively at a peak-reflection wavelength (center-wavelength) of about 800 nm.
- a GVD of -70fs 2 in a bandwidth of 100 nm has been reported for a prior-art NDM having the same center wavelength.
- a typical ultrafast laser cavity requires a total GVD of about -500 fs 2 per pass (-lOOOfs 2 per round trip)
- NGVD-mirrors used in the present invention differ significantly in the manner of their manufacture from prior art NGVD-mirrors of design type, and, as result, are believed to have about two orders-of-magnitude less optical loss (scatter and absorption) than prior-art NGVD- mirrors.
- the significance of such greatly reduced optical loss is set forth below.
- optical gain is sufficiently low that an intracavity optical device having an optical loss greater than about 1 x 10 "2 would seriously degrade the laser performance.
- any more than 1 x 10 "3 loss per reflection would seriously degrade the laser performance.
- NGVD-mirrors for use in a laser in accordance with the present invention, it has been found possible to deposit, by ion-beam sputtering, both GTI and NDM type NGVD- mirrors with optical losses lower than 1 x 10 "4 and as low as 3 x 10 "s . Simple fold-mirrors and cavity end mirrors with losses less than 1 x 10 "5 have been deposited.
- ultrafast lasers of being able to achieve such low loss in a fold-mirror or NGVD- mirror are numerous.
- a particular advantage is that, in a negative-dispersion mirror with 1 x 10 "5 loss, laser-light could undergo fifty or more negative-dispersion reflections per round-trip in a resonant cavity without creating a significant total cavity loss. This could be used to "fold" a 2 m long cavity into a physical space about 0.1 m long.
- being able to achieve many intracavity NGVD-reflections provides that less negative dispersion per reflection is required. This offers the possibility that negative dispersion in an ultrafast-laser cavity can be achieved over a greater wavelength range than has been achieved in prior art ultrafast-laser cavity configurations.
- the thickness of layers in a fifty-layer, ion-beam-sputter-deposited, NDM is illustrated in graphical form.
- This mirror is designed to be used with a laser 10 in accordance with the present invention, tuneable in a wavelength range between about 770 and 830 nm Layers are numbered beginning with the layer furthest from the substrate. Odd-numbered layers are high refractive index layers and are tantalum oxide (Ta 2 0 5 ) layers. Even numbered layers are low refractive index layers and are layers of silicon dioxide (Si0 2 ) . No layer in the design has an optical thickness which is greater than three-eighths of a wavelength at 800 nm or greater than one-half wavelength at any shorter wavelength in the desired tuning range of the laser.
- FIG. 3 is shown the group dispersion delay as function of wavelength for the mirror. It can be seen that this nominally about -39 fs 2 and is substantially constant, i.e, within about ⁇ 10%, over a range of about 100 nm.
- Table 1 shows pulse duration and bandwidth for modelocked pulses of 813 nm wavelength in a Ti: sapphire ultrafast laser generally in accordance with the arrangement of FIG. 1 wherein two, three, and four of fold mirrors 18, 20, 22 and 24 are ion- beam-sputter-deposited mirrors having the design of FIG. 4, deposited on substrates having a surface roughness of less than 0.3 nm RMS, and having measured peak reflectivity of 99.997 at about 800 nm.
- the reference numerals of the fold mirrors which are such NGVD-mirrors is given in the first column of the table .
- any fold-mirror which is not an NGVD mirror, as well as focussing mirrors 26 and 28 and that mirror which is used as a maximally reflective end-mirror also have a surface roughness less than about 0.3 nm RMS and have an ion-beam-sputtered coating providing a peak reflectivity of 99.997% or greater at 800 nm.
- the outcoupler has a transmission of about 10% at 800 nm.
- Focusing-mirrors 26 and 28 each have a radius of curvature of 100 mm, crystal 30 is located about 52.0 mm from mirror 28 and about 49.5 mm from mirror 26. Pump power was 2.0 Watts at a wavelength of 532 nm.
- Gain-medium (crystal) 30 is an uncoated 5.0 mm long Brewster rod of Ti(0.20%) :Al 2 0 3 .
- the total single-pass path-length for laser light i.e., the true cavity length, is 1.875 m. Because of the multiply folded arrangement, all optical components of FIG. 1 with the exception of pump-laser 36 fit in a rectangle about 18 cm long and 9 cm wide .
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