Ultrafast Pulsed Laser, Pulse Control and Dispersion Compensation
Selected publications demonstrating chirped volume Bragg gratings for ultrafast pulse compression, stretching, pulse control, and dispersion compensation.
| # | Publication | Journal, Volume and Pages | Application Summary | Article |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liao et al., “Large-Aperture Chirped Volume Bragg Grating Based Fiber CPA System” | Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 4876-4882 (2007) | First demonstration of a large-aperture PTR-glass CVBG used as both stretcher and compressor in a fiber CPA system, producing 1.1 ps transform-limited pulses with 6.6 W average power. | Article |
| 2 | Chang et al., “Femtosecond Yb-Fiber Chirped-Pulse-Amplification System Based on Chirped-Volume Bragg Gratings” | Optics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 19, pp. 2952-2954 (2009) | Broadband CVBG stretcher and compressor enabled a compact Yb-fiber CPA system delivering 75 W average power and 650 fs pulses. | Article |
| 3 | João et al., “Development of a 10 mJ-Level Optically Synchronized Picosecond Yb:KYW Amplifier at 1040 nm for OPCPA Pumping” | Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8080, 808008 (2011) | A volume Bragg grating stretched the seed pulses to about 300 ps; pre-amplified pulses were recompressed to 1.17 ps in the same grating, supporting a compact 10 mJ Yb:KYW OPCPA pump chain. | Article |
| 4 | Wan et al., “High Power 2 μm Femtosecond Fiber Laser” | Optics Express, Vol. 21, No. 18, pp. 21374-21379 (2013) | A double-pass CBG compressor generated approximately 790 fs pulses with 36 W average power from a 78 W Tm-fiber CPA system at 2 μm. | Article |
| 5 | Glebov et al., “Volume-Chirped Bragg Gratings: Monolithic Components for Stretching and Compression of Ultrashort Laser Pulses” | Optical Engineering, Vol. 53, No. 5, 051514 (2014) | Review of CBG operating principles, performance, pulse stretching and compression, and high-power capabilities across the 0.8–2.5 μm spectral range. | Article |
| 6 | Hemmer et al., “2-μm Wavelength, High-Energy Ho:YLF Chirped-Pulse Amplifier for Mid-Infrared OPCPA” | Optics Letters, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 451-454 (2015) | Large-aperture CVBG stretcher and compressor enabled generation of 39 mJ, approximately 11 ps pulses at 2 μm with 85% compressor efficiency. | Article |
| 7 | Perevezentsev et al., “Front-End System for Yb:YAG Cryogenic Disk Laser” | Quantum Electronics, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 451-454 (2015) | Two OptiGrate CVBGs in a compact multipass stretcher produced 2 ns pulses with about 1.5 nm bandwidth for a regenerative-amplifier front end. | Article |
| 8 | Nejbauer et al., “Spectral Compression of Femtosecond Pulses Using Chirped Volume Bragg Gratings” | Optics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 2394-2397 (2016) | A single CVBG produced opposite pulse chirps for sum-frequency mixing, achieving 360-fold spectral compression and pulses longer than 100 ps. | Article |
| 9 | Sun et al., “High-Power All-Fiber Femtosecond Chirped Pulse Amplification Based on Dispersive Wave and Chirped-Volume Bragg Grating” | Optics Express, Vol. 24, No. 20, pp. 22806-22812 (2016) | A CVBG compressed 525 ps pulses to 566 fs, delivering 107 W average output power with 86% compression efficiency. | Article |
| 10 | Bartulevicius et al., “Compact Fiber CPA System Based on a CFBG Stretcher and CVBG Compressor with Matched Dispersion Profile” | Optics Express, Vol. 25, No. 17, pp. 19856-19862 (2017) | A dispersion-matched CFBG/CVBG system compressed 230 ps pulses to 208 fs with more than 90% pulse contrast and near-transform-limited performance. | Article |