Author Affiliations
1Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China2National Laboratory on High Power Lasers and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 201800, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Schematic of time-synchronization fiducial system of SG-II laser facility
Fig. 2. Time division multiplexing for time fiducial system and main laser
Fig. 3. Output pulse stack with different pulse widths and intervals from seed source. (a) Pulse width τw=99.24 ps, pulse interval τ=360.54 ps; (b) pulse width τw=69.87 ps, pulse interval τ=279.46 ps
Fig. 4. Typical spectral profile of pulse stack before entering solid amplifier
Fig. 5. Schematic of solid amplifier and harmionic generation
Fig. 6. Comparison of 2ω pulse widths before and after multi-mode fiber transmission
Fig. 7. Test curve of jitter between main laser and optic time fiducial laser
Fig. 8. 2ω optic time fiducial laser signal measured by visible streak camera. (a) Tested result of streak camera; (b) pulse stack from seed source
Fig. 9. 2ω optic time fiducial laser signal measured by visible streak camera in 5 μs time window. (a) Tested result of streak camera; (b) pulse stack from seed source
Fig. 10. Output electric time fiducial pulse stack of system
Fig. 11. Characteristic curves of high-precision synchronous trigger. (a) Time-domain waveform; (b) rising edge
Type ofoutput | Wavelengthλ /nm | Miniumpulsewidthτmin /ps | Pulseinterval τ | Number ofsubpulses | PulseenergyW /μJ | Advance timeof pulserelative tomain laserτd /ns | Number ofdistributedchannel | Interfacetype |
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SHG | 532 | <100 | 200 ps-1 μs | 10 | ≥1 | ±100 | 4 | SMA fiber | THG | 355 | <100 | 200 ps-1 μs | 10 | ≥3 | ±100 | 4 | SMA fiber | FHG | 266 | <100 | 200 ps-1 μs | 10 | ≥2 | about 130 | 2 | SMA fiber/spacelight output |
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Table 1. Key parameters of time fiducial laser in time fiducial system
Type ofoutput | Amplitude /V | Pulsewidthτmin | Rise timeτr /ps | Number ofsubpulses | Advancetime ofpulse relativeto mainlaser τd /ns | Number ofdistributedchannel | Interfacetype |
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Electric timefiducial signal | ≥ 2 | <200 ps | <80 | 10 | ±65 | 8 | SMA cable | Synchronous trigger | ≥ 5 | >10 ns | <200 | - | 50-200 | 4 | SMA cable |
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Table 2. Key parameters of electric time fiducial and synchronous trigger signals
Type of output | Pulse width τwidth /ps(RMS) | Pulse interval τin /ps | Jitter with main laser τjitter /ps |
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RMS | Peak | RMS | Peak |
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Optical fiducial signal | 1.11 | 0.73 | 6.40 | 1.84 | 12.80 | Electric fiducial signal | 1.21 | 1.05 | 8.44 | 3.02 | 16.95 |
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Table 3. Instability and synchronization jitter of time fiducial signals