Mode-locked chip-lasers with multiple waveguides

D. G. Lancaster; D. Otten; N. Bourbeau Hébert; F. Piantedosi; J. Genest

doi:10.1117/12.2540463

30 December 2019 Mode-locked chip-lasers with multiple waveguides

D. G. Lancaster, D. Otten, N. Bourbeau Hébert, F. Piantedosi, J. Genest

Proceedings Volume 11200, AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019; 112001F (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540463
Event: ANZCOP, 2019, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

Frequency combs, analogue to digital sampling, and free space optical communications are emerging applications that can benefit from advances in elegant, compact, and high-performance miniature mode-locked lasers. By virtue of their ‘chip-scale’, and multiplicity of adjacent waveguides, compact planar waveguide devices are suited to efficiently operate in the ~0.5 GHz to 10 GHz pulse regimes, and to have key advantages when employed as dual-frequency combs. The erbium ytterbium cerium co-doped ZBLAN chips we have developed have achieved transform limited mode-locked output near 1.55 μm, pulse lengths down to 180 fs, and operation up to 5 GHz. This paper will also cover our more recent work on demonstrating a dual-frequency comb based on simultaneously mode-locking adjacent waveguide lasers in a common-cavity setup and demonstrate its spectroscopic potential by rapidly (~ms) acquiring high resolution and broad (<2 THz) molecular spectra of molecules.

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D. G. Lancaster, D. Otten, N. Bourbeau Hébert, F. Piantedosi, and J. Genest "Mode-locked chip-lasers with multiple waveguides", Proc. SPIE 11200, AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019, 112001F (30 December 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540463

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