• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 1, 35 (2023)
Qiang Wu1, Lei Gao1、4、*, Yulong Cao1, Stefan Wabnitz2、3, Zhenghu Chang1, Ai Liu1, Jingsheng Huang1, Ligang Huang1, and Tao Zhu1、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology & Systems (Ministry of Education), Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
  • 2Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00184 Roma, Italy
  • 3CNR-INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy
  • 4e-mail: gaolei@cqu.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: zhutao@cqu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.471291 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Qiang Wu, Lei Gao, Yulong Cao, Stefan Wabnitz, Zhenghu Chang, Ai Liu, Jingsheng Huang, Ligang Huang, Tao Zhu. Single-shot measurement of wavelength-resolved state of polarization dynamics in ultrafast lasers using dispersed division-of-amplitude[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(1): 35 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Characterization of the state of polarization (SOP) of ultrafast laser emission is relevant in several application fields such as field manipulation, pulse shaping, testing of sample characteristics, and biomedical imaging. Nevertheless, since high-speed detection and wavelength-resolved measurements cannot be simultaneously achieved by commercial polarization analyzers, single-shot measurements of the wavelength-resolved SOP of ultrafast laser pulses have rarely been reported. Here, we propose a method for single-shot, wavelength-resolved SOP measurements that exploits the method of division-of-amplitude under far-field transformation. A large accumulated chromatic dispersion is utilized to time-stretch the laser pulses via dispersive Fourier transform, so that spectral information is mapped into a temporal waveform. By calibrating our test matrix with different wavelengths, wavelength-resolved SOP measurements are achieved, based on the division-of-amplitude approach, combined with high-speed opto-electronic processing. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, we reveal the complex wavelength-dependent SOP dynamics in the build-up of dissipative solitons. The experimental results show that the dissipative soliton exhibits far more complex wavelength-related polarization dynamics, which are not shown in single-shot spectrum measurement. Our method paves the way for single-shot measurement and intelligent control of ultrafast lasers with wavelength-resolved SOP structures, which could promote further investigations of polarization-related optical signal processing techniques, such as pulse shaping and hyperspectral polarization imaging.
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    Qiang Wu, Lei Gao, Yulong Cao, Stefan Wabnitz, Zhenghu Chang, Ai Liu, Jingsheng Huang, Ligang Huang, Tao Zhu. Single-shot measurement of wavelength-resolved state of polarization dynamics in ultrafast lasers using dispersed division-of-amplitude[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(1): 35
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