• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 173 (2023)
Yulong Cao1、2, Zhenghu Chang1, Qiang Wu1, Jingsheng Huang1, Laiyang Dang1, Ai Liu1, Yiyang Luo1, Ligang Huang1, Wei Huang1, Lei Gao1、3、*, and Tao Zhu1、4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology & Systems (Ministry of Education), Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
  • 2Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 3e-mail: gaolei@cqu.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: zhutao@cqu.edu.cn
  • show less
    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.478095 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yulong Cao, Zhenghu Chang, Qiang Wu, Jingsheng Huang, Laiyang Dang, Ai Liu, Yiyang Luo, Ligang Huang, Wei Huang, Lei Gao, Tao Zhu. Self-synchronized temporal-spectral characterization system for revealing ultrafast fiber laser dynamics[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(2): 173 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Due to the electronic bottleneck limited real-time measurement speed of common temporal-spectral detection and the particle-like nature of optical soliton enabled nonrepeatable transient behaviors, capturing the ultrafast laser pulses with unknown times of arrival and synchronously characterizing their temporal-spectral dynamic evolution is still a challenge. Here, using the Raman soliton frequency shift based temporal magnifier and dispersive Fourier transform based spectral analyzer, we demonstrate a self-synchronized, ultrafast temporal-spectral characterization system with a resolution of 160 fs and 0.05 nm, and a recording length above milliseconds. The synchronized nonlinear process makes it possible to image full-filled temporal sub-picosecond pulse trains regardless of their arrival times and without extra pump lasers and photoelectric conversion devices. To demonstrate the significance of this improvement, a buildup dynamic process of a soliton laser with a complex breakup and collisions of multisolitons is visually displayed in the spectral and temporal domains. The soliton dynamic evolution processes observed by our characterization system are in one-to-one correspondence with the numerical simulation results. We believe this work provides a new multidimensional technique to break the electronic bottleneck to gain additional insight into the dynamics of ultrafast lasers and nonlinear science.
    Yulong Cao, Zhenghu Chang, Qiang Wu, Jingsheng Huang, Laiyang Dang, Ai Liu, Yiyang Luo, Ligang Huang, Wei Huang, Lei Gao, Tao Zhu. Self-synchronized temporal-spectral characterization system for revealing ultrafast fiber laser dynamics[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(2): 173
    Download Citation