• High Power Laser Science and Engineering
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 02000e18 (2023)
Xin Zeng1、2, Shuzhen Cui2, Huawei Jiang2, Bowen Ruan1、2, Xin Cheng1、2, Jiaqi Zhou2, Zhiquan Lin1、2, Xuezong Yang1, Weibiao Chen1、2, and Yan Feng1、2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China
  • 2Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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    DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2023.28 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xin Zeng, Shuzhen Cui, Huawei Jiang, Bowen Ruan, Xin Cheng, Jiaqi Zhou, Zhiquan Lin, Xuezong Yang, Weibiao Chen, Yan Feng. Single-frequency upconverted laser generation by phase summation[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2023, 11(2): 02000e18 Copy Citation Text show less

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    The phase summation effect in sum-frequency mixing process is utilized to avoid a nonlinearity obstacle in the power scaling of single-frequency visible or ultraviolet lasers. Two single-frequency fundamental lasers are spectrally broadened by phase modulation to suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber amplifier and achieve higher power. After sum-frequency mixing in a nonlinear optical crystal, the upconverted laser returns to single frequency due to phase summation, when the phase modulations on two fundamental lasers have a similar amplitude but opposite sign. The method was experimentally proved in a Raman fiber amplifier-based laser system, which generated a power-scalable sideband-free single-frequency 590 nm laser. The proposal manifests the importance of phase operation in wave-mixing processes for precision laser technology.
    $$\begin{align}{\tilde{E}}_n(t)={E}_n{e}^{-i\left[{\omega}_nt+{\varphi}_n(t)\right]}+\mathrm{c.c.},\end{align}$$ ((1))

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    $$\begin{align} {\tilde{P}}^{(2)}\left({\omega}_1+{\omega}_2\right)&=2{\varepsilon}_0{\chi}^{(2)}{E}_1{E}_2\cdot {e}^{-i\left\{\left({\omega}_1+{\omega}_2\right)t+\left[{\varphi}_1(t)+{\varphi}_2(t)\right]\right\}}\nonumber \\ & \quad +\mathrm{c.c.},\end{align}$$ ((2))

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    Xin Zeng, Shuzhen Cui, Huawei Jiang, Bowen Ruan, Xin Cheng, Jiaqi Zhou, Zhiquan Lin, Xuezong Yang, Weibiao Chen, Yan Feng. Single-frequency upconverted laser generation by phase summation[J]. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2023, 11(2): 02000e18
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