All-fiber frequency comb at 2 µm providing 1.4-cycle pulses

Published

May 1, 2020

Author(s)

Sida Xing, Abijith S. Kowligy, Daniel Lesko, Alexander Lind, Scott Diddams

Abstract

We report an all-fiber approach to generating sub-2-cycle pulses at 2 µm and a corresponding octave-spanning optical frequency comb. Our configuration leverages mature erbium:fiber laser technology at 1.5 µm to provide a seed pulse for a thulium-doped fiber amplifier that outputs 330 mW average power at a 100 MHz repetition rate. Following amplification, nonlinear self-compression in fiber decreases the pulse duration to 9.5 fs, or 1.4 optical cycles. The spectrum of the ultrashort pulse spans from 1 to beyond 2.4 µm and enables direct measurement of the carrier-envelope offset frequency. Our approach employs only commercially available fiber components, resulting in a design that is easy to reproduce in the larger community. As such, this system should be useful as a robust frequency comb source in the near-infrared or as a pump source to generate mid-infrared frequency combs.

Citation

Optics Letters

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.391486

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Keywords

Frequency Comb, Ultrafast Laser

Citation

Xing, S. , Kowligy, A. , Lesko, D. , Lind, A. and Diddams, S. (2020), All-fiber frequency comb at 2 µm providing 1.4-cycle pulses, Optics Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.391486, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=929699 (Accessed October 17, 2025)