超快光学 第11章 自相关频域分辨光学开关.pptVIP

* Interestingly, it turns out that we can do that! The pulse front tilt introduced by an optic is proportional to the angular dispersion introduced by that optic. So prisms introduce some pft. Grating introduce more. But an etalon introduces massive pulse-front tilt! Indeed, 89.9 degrees is actually easy. * This is the GRENOUILLE we’ve built that takes advantage of this effect. There’s still a Fresnel biprism, but only to split the input pulse in two. The first etalon, called the PFT etalon in the slide, introduces the pulse-front tilt in both pulses. The pulses then impinge on the crystal, after which a second etalon acts as a spectrometer to spectrally resolve the SH pulse. Whether an etalon’s main effect is to introduce angular dispersion or pulse front tilt depends on whether you focus or image the beam after it. * To test the ns GRENOUILLE, we measured the pulses from a Standa Nd:LSB microchip laser centered at 1064nm. We also used a Michelson interferometer having a path length difference of 90cm to generate a 3ns double pulse from this laser’s output. The GRENOUILLE measurements agree with spectral measurements and also with our knowledge of the pulse spacing from the Michelson. The MOFA was a diode-pumped Nd:LSB microdisk laser from Standa which emitted slightly sub-nanosecond pulses, at 1064nm with ~8μJ of energy and a 10kHz repetition rate. We amplified these pulses with a one-stage fiber amplifier. The fiber was a 2m-long double-clad Yb-doped polarization-maintaining fiber with an inner-core diameter of 25μm, and an outer-core diameter of 250 μm from Nufern. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Photographs courtesy of Jinendra Ranka, Lucent * Optical rogue waves can at least be modeled, and here’s a simulated spectrogram vs. distance along a fiber (as it is being generated in the fiber) for an optical rogue wave. Note the large amplitude in the temporal intensity and also in the spectrogram. * * * In order to fully characterize the intensity a