Photonics Research, 2021, 9 (3): 03000357, Published Online: Feb. 24, 2021
Structured laser beams: toward 2-μm femtosecond laser vortices
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Fig. 1. Schematic of the passively mode-locked femtosecond TEM 00 and HG 10 laser using collinear and off-axis pumping (BM, bending mirror; L, lens; CM1–CM3, chirped mirrors; OC, output coupler).
Fig. 2. (a) Optical spectra and (b), (c) interferometric autocorrelation traces of the mode-locked Tm:LuYO 3 ceramic laser operating in TEM 00 and HG 10 modes. Insets of (b) and (c) show the corresponding far-field beam patterns (fs, femtosecond).
Fig. 3. (a) Schematic of the SCL mode converter, and the recorded far-field (b), (e) HG 10 and (c), (d), (f), (g) LG 0 , ± 1 beam patterns as the mode-locked laser operated in the first (middle row) and second (bottom row) femtosecond regimes (l , topological charge).
Fig. 4. (a) Optical spectrum of the generated LG 0 , + 1 modes and the corresponding interferometric autocorrelation traces in the (b) first and (c) second femtosecond regimes; (d) and (e) are the RF spectra of the femtosecond (112 fs) LG 0 , + 1 beam in different span ranges. The inset in (c) shows the noncollinear autocorrelation trace recorded on a long time scale (RBW, resolution bandwidth).
Yongguang Zhao, Li Wang, Weidong Chen, Pavel Loiko, Xavier Mateos, Xiaodong Xu, Ying Liu, Deyuan Shen, Zhengping Wang, Xinguang Xu, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov. Structured laser beams: toward 2-μm femtosecond laser vortices[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(3): 03000357.