Ultrafast Fibre Lasers Dual-wavelength Ultrafast Fibre Lasers Donna Strickland Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute (GWPI) Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Waterloo
System layout r Oscillator Stretcher Regenerative amplifier Compressor Argon Ion Laser Ti:sapphire rod Oscillator Stretcher grating mirror Regenerative amplifier Frequency doubled 10Hz, Nd:YAG gratings Compressor
Dual Wavelength Spectra
Mid-Infrared Generation Cross-Correlator BBO polarizer half-wave plate delay line AgGaS2 MIR Cross-correlator spectrometer
Two-Photon Absorption 2x10-2 Photon conversion efficiency 1x10-2 1.0 Absorption Fresnel Losses 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.0 Energy Input (mJ)
Two-Photon Absorption
Yb:Fibre Lasers
(ideally an oscillator) Two-Colour Fibre System Two-colour seed (ideally an oscillator) Two-colour fibre amplifier Two-colour compressor
Ti:sapphire Oscillator Two-Colour Fibre Seed Ti:sapphire Oscillator Photonic Crystal Fibre
Seed Spectrum Wavelength (nm)
Two-Colour Fibre Amplifier Yb-doped double-clad fibre Dichroic mirrors Notch filter 10 m 10m Faraday Isolator Two-colour seed 2W 965 nm Pump diode 4W, 915 nm Pump Diode
Amplifier Spectrum Wavelength (nm)
Two-Colour Fibre Compressor 5cm
Two-Colour Cross-Correlation
Mid-infrared and next steps HgCdTe detector GaSe new pre-amplifier - single clad new two colour oscillator - Yb:fibre or Yb:solid state incorporate fibre elements into amplifier - Bragg grating rather than interference filter
Acknowledgements Post-doctoral Fellows Undergraduates Dongfeng Liu Jie Song Undergraduates Jason Young Sarah Johnson Chris Ferrie Paul Carr