Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2009-12-15
Physical Review A 81, 053815 (2010)
Physics
Optics
14 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, submitted to PRA
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053815
The output pulses of a commercial high-power femtosecond fiber laser or amplifier are typically around 300-500 fs with a wavelength around 1030 nm and 10s of $\mu$J pulse energy. Here we present a numerical study of cascaded quadratic soliton compression of such pulses in LiNbO$_3$ using a type I phase matching configuration. We find that because of competing cubic material nonlinearities compression can only occur in the nonstationary regime, where group-velocity mismatch induced Raman-like nonlocal effects prevent compression to below 100 fs. However, the strong group velocity dispersion implies that the pulses can achieve moderate compression to sub-130 fs duration in available crystal lengths. Most of the pulse energy is conserved because the compression is moderate. The effects of diffraction and spatial walk-off is addressed, and in particular the latter could become an issue when compressing in such long crystals (around 10 cm long). We finally show that the second harmonic contains a short pulse locked to the pump and a long multi-ps red-shifted detrimental component. The latter is caused by the nonlocal effects in the nonstationary regime, but because it is strongly red-shifted to a position that can be predicted, we show that it can be removed using a bandpass filter, leaving a sub-100 fs visible component at $\lambda=515$ nm with excellent pulse quality.
Bache Morten
Wise Frank W.
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