Femtosecond tunable light source with variable repetition rate between 640 kHz and 41 MHz with a 130 dB temporal pulse contrast ratio

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seitenumfang11
FachzeitschriftOptics express
Jahrgang30
Ausgabenummer1
Frühes Online-Datum20 Dez. 2021
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 3 Jan. 2022
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Abstract

We demonstrate a femtosecond tunable light source with a variable pulse repetition rate based on a synchronously pumped fiber-feedback optical parametric oscillator (FFOPO) that incorporates an extended-cavity design. The repetition rate can be reduced by an acousto-optical modulator in the FFOPO pump beam. The extended FFOPO cavity supports signal oscillation down to the 64 th subharmonic. The high nonlinearity of the FFOPO threshold suppresses signal output for residual pump pulses that are transmitted by the pulse picker. We characterize the temporal pulse contrast ratio of the FFOPO signal output with a second-order cross-correlation measurement. This FFOPO system enables pulse picking with extraordinarily high values up to 111 dB suppression of adjacent pulses and exhibits a temporal contrast ratio that exceeds 130 dB. It generates fs-pulses with tunable wavelength from 1415–1750 nm and 2.5–3.8 µm and variable repetition rates ranging from 640 kHz to 41 MHz.

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Femtosecond tunable light source with variable repetition rate between 640 kHz and 41 MHz with a 130 dB temporal pulse contrast ratio. / Floess, Moritz; Steinle, Tobias; Gerhardt, Ilja et al.
in: Optics express, Jahrgang 30, Nr. 1, 03.01.2022.

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