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We demonstrate a high power, all-fiber, tunable laser source that can operate in the L-band region. A low power, tunable input laser is amplified with a recently proposed, high efficiency, 6th order cascaded Raman amplifier. The proposed…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-15 S Arun , Vishal Choudhury , Roopa Prakash , V R Supradeepa

Broadband wavelength tuneability can ensure a new level of versatility for laser systems and extend areas of their applications. Principle limitations of achieving wide tuning wavelength ranges are generally defined by the spectral…

We describe a tunable broadband mid-infrared laser source based on difference-frequency mixing of a 100 MHz femtosecond Yb:fiber laser oscillator and a Raman-shifted soliton generated with the same laser. The resulting light is tunable over…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Tyler W. Neely , Todd A. Johnson , Scott A. Diddams

We report the first experimental demonstration of efficient and high-power operation of a Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a simple, compact, continuous-wave (cw) fiber-laser-based green source. The pump radiation is obtained by direct…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-23 G. K. Samanta , S. Chaitanya Kumar , Kavita Devi , M. Ebrahim-Zadeh

We present a laser system with a linewidth and long-term frequency stability at the 50 kHz level. It is based on a Ti:Sapphire laser emitting radiation at 882 nm which is referenced to an atomic transition. For this, the length of an…

We report shifting of the frequency of an 850 nm laser with an instantaneous bandwidth of (350-1650), MHz and an efficiency between 35% (minimum) to 80% (best at frequencies around 600 and 1500, MHz) by phase modulation with a sawtooth…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-10 Rachel Houtz , Cheong Chan , Holger Mueller

Many experiments in biological and medical sciences currently use multiphoton microscopy as a core imaging technique. To date, solid-state lasers are most commonly used as excitation beam sources. However, the most demanding applications…

High-coherence light sources with an ultra-narrow linewidth are of considerable research interests in numerous fields, such as laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory, laser radio, etc. Herein, commencing from the in-depth…

We utilize a high quality calcium fluoride whispering-gallery-mode resonator to stabilize a simple erbium doped fiber ring laser with an emission frequency of 196 THz (wavelenght 1530 nm) to a linewidth below 650 Hz. This corresponds to a…

A single-mode Cs atom 852 nm Faraday laser based on the corner cube feedback is demonstrated, and termed as corner-cube-feedback Faraday laser. Using the corner-cube retroreflector as external cavity feedback element in Faraday laser,…

We report on the phase-locking of two diode lasers based on self-seeded tapered amplifiers. In these lasers, a reduction of linewidth is achieved using narrow-band high-transmission interference filters for frequency selection. The lasers…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Tackmann , M. Gilowski , Ch. Schubert , P. Berg , T. Wendrich , W. Ertmer , E. M. Rasel

Fiber lasers are widely used in various fields owing to their high efficiency, flexible transmission and excellent beam quality. In applications such as industrial manufacturing and defense systems, a higher output power is always desired.…

We report on the development of a frequency modulatable 795 nm semiconductor laser based on self-injection locking to a high quality factor whispering gallery mode microresonator. The laser is characterized with residual amplitude…

We characterize a semiconductor external cavity diode laser whose optical feedback is provided by a guided mode resonance filter (GMRF). We focus on the spectral properties. The wavelength of operation falls in the telecom range (1506 nm).…

A low noise linearly frequency modulated continuous wave laser source with a wide frequency bandwidth is demonstrated. By two-dimensional thermal tuning, the laser source shows 42 GHz continuous frequency tuning with 49.86 Hz intrinsic…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-17 Liwei Tang , Hongxiang Jia , Shuai Shao , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen , Minghua Chen

We report on a mid-infrared mode-locked fiber laser that uses an acousto-optic tunable filter to achieve frequency-shifted feedback pulse generation with frequency tuning over a 215 nm range. The laser operates on the 3.5 ${\mu}$m…

Mode-locked fiber laser technology to date has been limited to sub-3 {\mu}m wavelengths, despite significant application-driven demand for compact picosecond and femtosecond pulse sources at longer wavelengths. Erbium- and holmium-doped…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-08 R. I. Woodward , M. R. Majewski , S. D. Jackson

We demonstrate laser frequency stabilization using a high-Q MgF2 crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator coupled with a tapered fiber. We discovered that the tapered fiber, acting as a microcantilever, exhibits mechanical resonance…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yaohui Xu , Xiaolan Liu , Wujun Li , Haotian Wang , Jun Guo , Jie Ma , Jianing Zhang , Deyuan Shen

We report an integrated all-optical radio frequency spectrum analyzer based on a ~ 4cm long doped silica glass waveguide, with a bandwidth greater than 2.5 THz. We use this device to characterize the intensity power spectrum of ultrahigh…

We demonstrate a 1.4 W continuous wavelength (CW) laser at 243.1 nm. The radiation is generated through frequency quadrupling the output of a ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier system which produces $>$ 10 W of CW power at 972.5 nm. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Z. Burkley , A. D. Brandt , C. Rasor , S. F. Cooper , D. C. Yost