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A holmium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Ho:YAG) thin-disk was experimentally investigated under Q-switching and cavity-dumping operation schemes, pumped by a 1.9 $\mu$m laser-diode (LD). The laser generated pulses at 2090 nm with energies…

This article reports on the long-term frequency stabilty characterisation of a new type of cryogenic sapphire oscillator using an autonomous pulse-tube cryocooler as its cold source. This new design enables a relative frequency stability of…

A photonic millimeter wave local oscillator capable of producing two microwatts of radiated power at 224 GHz has been developed. The device was tested in one antenna of Smithsonian Institution's Submillimeter Array (SMA) and was found to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert Kimberk , Todd R. Hunter , C. -Y. Edward Tong , Raymond Blundell

We present efficient high-order harmonic generation (HHG) based on a high-repetition rate, few-cycle, near infrared (NIR), carrier-envelope phase stable, optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA), emitting 6fs pulses with 9{\mu}J…

We report mode-locked ~1550 nm output of transform-limited ~180 fs pulses from a large mode-area (diameter ~ 50 {\mu}m) guided-wave erbium fluorozirconate glass laser. The passively mode-locked oscillator generates pulses with 25 nm…

Laser frequency combs are coherent light sources that simultaneously provide pristine frequency spacings for precision metrology and the fundamental basis for ultrafast and attosecond sciences. Recently, nonlinear parametric conversion in…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-20 S. -W. Huang , J. Yang , H. Zhou , M. Yu , D. -L. Kwong , C. W. Wong

Integrated circuits of photonic components are the goal of applied polaritonics. Here, we propose a compact clock generator based on an exciton-polariton micropillar, providing optical signal with modulation frequency up to 100 GHz. This…

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This paper presents the conceptual design of a high-voltage pulser intended to generate 30-T magnetic fields for magneto-inertial fusion experiments at the OMEGA facility. The pulser uses a custom capacitor bank and two externally triggered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. V. Shapovalov , R. B. Spielman , G. Brent , P. -A. Gourdain

An ultra-low-voltage crystal quartz oscillator is proposed. The approach to its design is essentially based on using a HEMT operating in unsaturated dc regime and a quartz resonator as a resonant impedance transformer. The 25 MHz prototype…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-19 A. M. Korolev , V. M. Shulga , O. G. Turutanov

We synchronize a 8.06-GHz microwave signal from a voltage-controlled oscillator with an optical pulse train from a 77.5- MHz mode-locked Er-fiber laser using a fiber-based optical-microwave phase detector. The residual phase noise between…

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To explore the capabilities of metallic spintronic thin-film stacks as a source of intense and broadband terahertz electromagnetic fields, we excite a W/CoFeB/Pt trilayer on a large-area glass substrate (diameter of 7.5 cm) by a femtosecond…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-09 T. Seifert , S. Jaiswal , M. Sajadi , G. Jakob , S. Winnerl , M. Wolf , M. Kläui , T. Kampfrath

Generating non-classical states of light by opto-mechanical coupling depends critically on the mechanical and optical properties of micro-oscillators and on the minimization of thermal noise. We present an oscillating micro-mirror with a…

Optical parametric oscillators are widely used to generate coherent light at frequencies not accessible by conventional laser gain. However, chip-based parametric oscillators operating in the visible spectrum have suffered from…

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Laser pulses in the near-infrared spectral range with a high repetition rate and high pulse energy offer the possibility to perform strong-field experiments such as high-order harmonic generation in gases or strong-field photoemission from…

We report on a high-power mid-infrared femtosecond master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system, employing Cr:ZnS and Cr:ZnSe polycrystals with fine-tuned doping profiles. Based on the soft-aperture Kerr-lens mode-locking in the soliton…

We present a near-infrared optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier (OPCPA) and soft X-ray (SXR) high-harmonic generation system. The OPCPA produces few-cycle pulses at a center wavelength of 800 nm and operates at a high repetition rate…

The next-generation sensing and communication applications rely on high-frequency microwave generation with low-noise. The microwave photonic technology is promising by the practical application is limited by its complex architecture so…

A robust method for producing half-cycle - few-cycle pulses in mid-infrared to extreme ultraviolet spectral ranges is proposed. It is based on coherent undulator radiation of relativistic ultrathin electron layers, which are produced by…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Z. Tibai , Gy. Tóth , M. I. Mechler , J. A. Fülöp , J. Hebling

Two nominally identical ultra-stable cryogenic microwave oscillators are compared. Each incorporates a dielectric-sapphire resonator cooled to near 6 K in an ultra-low vibration cryostat using a low-vibration pulse-tube cryocooler. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-05-15 John G. Hartnett , Nitin R. Nand , Chuan Lu