• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 20, Issue 5, 051901 (2022)
Lixin Yuan1, Yu Cai1, Yuxi Chu1、2, Jintao Fan1、*, and Minglie Hu1、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Ultrafast Laser Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute (GTSI), Tianjin University, Shenzhen 518067, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202220.051901 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Lixin Yuan, Yu Cai, Yuxi Chu, Jintao Fan, Minglie Hu. Generation of sub-three-cycle pulses at 53 MHz repetition rate via nonlinear compression in optical parametric oscillator[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(5): 051901 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We report an experimental generation of few-cycle pulses at 53 MHz repetition rate. Femtosecond pulses with pulse duration of 181 fs are firstly generated from an optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Then, the pulses are compressed to sub-three-cycle with a hybrid compressor composed of a commercial single-mode fiber and a pair of prisms, taking advantage of the tunability of the OPO and the numerical simulating of the nonlinear compression system. Our compressed optical pulses possess an ultrabroadband spectrum covering over 470 nm bandwidth (at -10 dB), and the output intensity fluctuation of our system is less than 0.8%. These results show that our system can effectively generate few-cycle pulses at a repetition rate of tens of megahertz with excellent long-term stability, which could benefit future possible applications.
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    Lixin Yuan, Yu Cai, Yuxi Chu, Jintao Fan, Minglie Hu. Generation of sub-three-cycle pulses at 53 MHz repetition rate via nonlinear compression in optical parametric oscillator[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(5): 051901
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