• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 9, 2033 (2024)
Neeraj Prakash1, Jonathan Musgrave1, Bowen Li1,2,3, and Shu-Wei Huang1,*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
  • 2Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications (Ministry of Education), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
  • 3e-mail: bowen.li@uestc.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.528873 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Neeraj Prakash, Jonathan Musgrave, Bowen Li, Shu-Wei Huang, "Dynamic counterpropagating all-normal dispersion (DCANDi) fiber laser," Photonics Res. 12, 2033 (2024) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The fiber single-cavity dual-comb laser (SCDCL) is an emerging light-source architecture that opens up the possibility for low-complexity dual-comb pump-probe measurements. However, the fundamental trade-off between measurement speed and time resolution remains a hurdle for the widespread use of fiber SCDCLs in dual-comb pump-probe measurements. In this paper, we break this fundamental trade-off by devising an all-optical dynamic repetition rate difference (Δfrep) modulation technique. We demonstrate the dynamic Δfrep modulation in a modified version of the recently developed counterpropagating all-normal dispersion (CANDi) fiber laser. We verify that our all-optical dynamic Δfrep modulation technique does not introduce excessive relative timing jitter. In addition, the dynamic modulation mechanism is studied and validated both theoretically and experimentally. As a proof-of-principle experiment, we apply this so-called dynamic CANDi (DCANDi) fiber laser to measure the relaxation time of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror, achieving a measurement speed and duty cycle enhancement factor of 143. DCANDi fiber laser is a promising light source for low-complexity, high-speed, high-sensitivity ultrafast dual-comb pump-probe measurements.
    dfrepdP=frep2×(β2dωΔdP),

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    dΔfrepdP=frep2×(β2dωΔCWdPβ2dωΔCCWdP)=frep2×(β2dδωΔdP).

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    δUδz=Δβ1δUδtiβ22δ2Uδt2iβ36δ3Uδt3αg2U+iγ[(|U|2+23|V|2)+13U*V2],(A1.a)

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    δVδz=Δβ1δVδtiβ22δ2Vδt2iβ36δ3Vδt3αg2V+iγ[(|V|2+23|U|2)+13V*U2].(A1.b)

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    δPpδz=Γp[σeN2(z)σaN1(z)]ρPp,(A2.a)

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    δPsδz=Γs[σeN2(z)σaN1(z)]ρPs,(A2.b)

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    N2(z)=R12+W12R12+R21+W12+W21+1τ21.(A2.c)

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    g˜0=1δzln[Ps(z+δz)Ps(z)].(A3)

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    TPC=(cosθsinθsinθcosθ)(eiϕ/200eiϕ/2)(cosθsinθsinθcosθ).(A4)

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    Neeraj Prakash, Jonathan Musgrave, Bowen Li, Shu-Wei Huang, "Dynamic counterpropagating all-normal dispersion (DCANDi) fiber laser," Photonics Res. 12, 2033 (2024)
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