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Gostaríamos de agradecer ao Prof. Ferenc Krausz pelas discussões e Najd Altwaijry por seu apoio à finalização do manuscrito. Este trabalho foi financiado pelo Centro de Aplicações Laser Avançadas (CALA).

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A operação turn-key do oscilador é alcançada pelo ótimo gerenciamento de calor dos diferentes componentes do laser. A saída do oscilador é reproduzível diariamente, sem necessidade de alinhamento ou otimização extra. Além disso, a estabilidade de energia de impulso a pulso ea estabilidade espacial apontadora do laser de sementes cumprem as condições prévias para alcançar o funcionamento estável do amplificador regenerativo. Outras fontes de semente de baixa energia, como amplificadores de fibra, podem ser usadas para semear o amplificador. Neste estudo, utilizou-se um oscilador KLM de 2 μJ Yb: YAG fino para auxiliar a amplificação do amplificador regenerativo, reduzindo o crescimento das fases não-lineares acumuladas, uma vez que o número necessário de viagens de ida e volta é reduzido para a energia de sementes de maior entrada . Além disso, a maior energia de sementes influencia o processo de amplificação e reduz o estreitamento do ganho. A largura de banda espectral medida do impulso amplificadoEs para diferentes energias de sementes com uma potência de bomba fixa é mostrado na Figura 5c . A largura de banda espectral amplificada diminui para menores energias de sementes devido ao estreitamento do ganho. Para 10 pJ de energia de sementes, o laser opera no período de duplicação, e não é possível alcançar uma operação estável, mesmo aumentando o número de viagens de ida e volta. Além da otimização cuidadosa dos sistemas de refrigeração e da fonte de alimentação dos diodos, a operação do amplificador regenerativo em saturação desempenha um papel importante na estabilidade alcançada do amplificador. O fundamental ou o segundo harmônico do laser podem ser usados ​​para bombear um sistema OPCPA. Para SHG, as performances de um LBO e um BBO foram comparadas, pois oferecem alto coeficiente não linear e limiar de dano, apesar da maior distância espacial e da abertura disponível limitada no caso do BBO. Como o coeficiente não-linear de BBO é quase o dobro do LBO, um cristal mais curto é suficientePara atingir o limite de saturação para SHG ( Figura 6a ). Portanto, BBO é a escolha mais adequada, já que a fase não linear linear acumulada é menor 28 . As durações de pulso dos pulsos SH são caracterizadas experimentalmente em diferentes eficiências de conversão. Observou-se que, com altas eficiências de conversão, o espectro SHG é ampliado e uma fase espectral de ordem superior aparece ( Figura 6 ). Portanto, o caso B, com a eficiência de conversão de 70%, é escolhido onde o SH e os feixes fundamentais não convertidos mantêm excelente qualidade.

A geração de pulsos de laser de alta energia e poucos ciclos com alta taxa de repetição é de grande interesse para os campos aplicados, como attosecond science 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 e física de campo alto 5 , 6 , que podem se beneficiar diretamente Da disponibilidade de tais fontes. O OPCPA representa a rota mais promissora para alcançar energias de pulso elevadas e amplitudes de banda de amplificação amplas que suportam simultaneamente impulsos de poucos ciclos 1 . Até à data, OPCPA permite amplificação de banda larga ultra, o que gera impulsos de poucos ciclos 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 . No entanto, uma implementação modificada do esquema OPCPA, que usa pulsos de bomba curtos na escala de picoseconda, é promissora paraTornando esta abordagem escalável para energias de pulso ainda maiores e poderes médios no regime de poucos ciclos 1 , 11 , 12 . Devido à alta intensidade da bomba no OPCPA bombeado por pulso curto, o ganho de passagem única alta permite o uso de cristais muito finos para suportar grandes largura de banda de amplificação. Embora o OPCPA bombeado com pulso curto tenha muitas vantagens, a realização dessa abordagem está sujeita à disponibilidade de lasers especialmente adaptados para esse fim. Essas lâminas de bomba são necessárias para fornecer pulsos de picossegundo de alta energia com qualidade de feixe de quase difracção a taxas de repetição na faixa de kHz a MHz 13 , 14 , 15 . A introdução de lasers dopados com iterbério em geometrias diferentes, capazes de fornecer pulsos de laser de picosecond com alta energia e alta potência média, Estão prestes a mudar o estado atual do campo 1 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 . Yb: YAG tem boa condutividade térmica e uma longa vida útil do estado superior, e pode ser bombeada por laser de diodo com custo efetivo. Seu desempenho quando usado na geometria do disco fino é excelente devido ao resfriamento eficiente do meio de ganho para escalar simultaneamente o pico e a potência média. Além disso, a ocorrência de auto-focagem dentro do meio de ganho durante o processo de amplificação é suprimida devido à esbeltez do disco fino em comparação com outras geometrias de média de ganho, resultando em excelentes perfis temporais e espaciais dos pulsos amplificados. Combinar esse conceito com a CPA é promissor para gerar pulsos de picosegundo com centenas de milinholos de energia e centenasDe watts de potência média 19 , 20 . O objetivo deste trabalho é demonstrar um amplificador regenerativo de disco fino Yb: YAG com excelente performance diária como fonte adequada para bombeamento de OPCPAs 21 . Para atingir esse objetivo, este estudo emprega um oscilador de disco fino Yb: YAG 22 com vários microjogos de energia de pulso para semear o amplificador para minimizar a fase não linear linear acumulada durante o processo de amplificação. Este protocolo fornece a receita para a construção e operação do sistema a laser, que é descrito em outro lugar 21 . São apresentados detalhes sobre software de implementação e controle de componentes, e o processo de alinhamento do sistema é descrito.

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(1030nm), flat, 0&amp;deg;</td><td>Layertec GmbH</td><td>108060</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>HR Mirror, 1&quot; (1030nm), flat, 0&amp;deg;</td><td>Laseroptik GmbH</td><td>B-09965, S-04484</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>HR Mirror, 1&quot; (1030nm), flat, 45&amp;deg;</td><td>Layertec GmbH</td><td>108063</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>HR Mirror, 1&quot; (1030nm), flat, 45&amp;deg;</td><td>Laseroptik GmbH</td><td>B-09966, S-04484</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>HR Mirror, 1&quot; (1030nm), curved</td><td>Layertec GmbH</td><td>N/A, customized</td><td>set</td></tr><tr><td>HR Mirror, 2&quot; (1030nm), flat, 0&amp;deg;</td><td>Laseroptik GmbH</td><td>B-09965, S-05474</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>HR Mirror, 2&quot; (1030nm), flat, 45&amp;deg;</td><td>Laseroptik GmbH</td><td>B-09966, S-05474</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Thin Film Polarizer (1030nm), 2&quot;</td><td>Layertec GmbH</td><td>103930</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Waveplate L/2 (1030nm)</td><td>Layertec GmbH</td><td>106058</td><td>&amp;Oslash;=25mm</td></tr><tr><td>Waveplate L/4 (1030nm)</td><td>Layertec GmbH</td><td>106060</td><td>&amp;Oslash;=25mm</td></tr><tr><td>AR Window (1030nm), wedge</td><td>Laseroptik GmbH</td><td>B-00183-01, S-00988</td><td>&amp;Oslash;=38mm</td></tr><tr><td>Output Coupler, 1&quot; 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20 mj, 1 ps yb:yag thin-disk regenerative amplifier

Este é um relatório sobre um amplificador regenerativo de 100 W, 20 mJ, 1 ps Yb: YAG de disco fino. Um microfone caseiro Yb: YAG, o oscilador bloqueado em modo Kerr-lens com desempenho turn-key e energia de pulso de nível microjolar é usado para semear o amplificador de pulso chirpado regenerativo. O amplificador é colocado em uma caixa hermética. Ele opera a temperatura ambiente e exibe operação estável a uma taxa de repetição de 5 kHz, com uma estabilidade de pulso a pulso inferior a 1%. Ao empregar um cristal de borato de bário beta de 1,5 mm de espessura, a freqüência da saída do laser é dobrada para 515 nm, com uma potência média de 70 W, o que corresponde a uma eficiência óptica a óptica de 70%. Esta performance superior torna o sistema uma fonte de bomba atrativa para amplificadores paramétricos ópticos de pulso-piloto na faixa espectral do infravermelho próximo e infravermelho médio. Combinando o desempenho turn-key e a estabilidade superior do amplificador regenerativo, o sistema facilita a geração de uma banda larga, CEP-stablesemente. Fornecer a semente e a bomba da amplificação paramétrica de pulsos paramétricos (OPCPA) de uma fonte laser elimina a demanda de sincronização temporal ativa entre esses pulsos. Este trabalho apresenta um guia detalhado para configurar e operar um amplificador regenerativo de disco fino Yb: YAG, baseado em amplificação de pulso chirpado (CPA), como fonte de bomba para um amplificador paramétrico de pulso polarizado.

<html> O oscilador entrega pulsos de 350 fs, 2 μJ, 25 W à taxa de repetição de 11 MHz, com uma estabilidade de pulso a pulso de 1% (rms) e flutuações apontadoras de feixe de menos de 0,6% ao longo de 1 h de medição ( Figura 4 ). <img alt="Figura 4" class="xfigimg" src="/files/ftp_upload/55717/55717fig4.jpg" /> Figura 4 : Yb: YAG de disco fino, oscilador bloqueado pelo modo Kerr-lens. (A) O espectro (vermelho), o perfil recuperado temporais intensidade (azul), e o perfil espacial (inset) dos impulsos do oscilador. ( B ) Espectrógrafo SHG-FROG medido e recuperado do oscilador. Esta figura foi modificada de Fattahi et al. , Com permissão da referência 21 .&gt; Clique aqui para ver uma versão maior desta figura. Os impulsos de semente são amplificados no amplificador regenerativo para 125 W enquanto são bombeados com um diodo acoplado de fibra CW a um comprimento de onda de 940 nm a 280 W, correspondendo a uma eficiência óptica-óptica de 47%. A estabilidade de pulso a pulso do amplificador é inferior a 1%, e o amplificador apresenta excelente estabilidade a longo prazo após 10 h de operação contínua. O feixe amplificado tem um excelente perfil espacial, com um M 2 de 1 (M 2 x = 1,08 e M 2 y = 1,07) e um excelente perfil temporal após compressão para 1 ps (em FWHM) ( Figura 5 ). <img alt="Figura 5" class="xfigimg" src="/files/ftp_upload/55717/55717fig5.jpg" /> Figura 5 : Caracterização do amplificador regenerativoSaída e o efeito de redução de ganho. (A) A estabilidade do amplificador de potência média regenerativo após 10 horas de operação contínua. Inserção: ( a-1 ) Potência normalizada para o seu valor médio em uma janela de tempo de 0,5 h; (A -2 ) Perfil de feixe de saída do amplificador regenerativo. ( B ) Espectro de saída do amplificador (verde) e a intensidade temporal recuperada (azul) dos impulsos do laser a uma potência média de 100 W após o compressor de rede. ( C ) Energia de sementes versus largura de banda espectral (FWHM) da saída do amplificador e as viagens de ida e volta necessárias para a mesma potência média de saída a 300 W da potência da bomba. Esta figura foi modificada de Fattahi et al. , Com permissão da referência 21 . <a href="http://ecsource.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/55717/55717fig5large.jpg" target="_blank">Clique aqui para ver uma versão maior dessa figura.</a> 25 . Foram considerados dois cristais diferentes com os seguintes parâmetros: 1) um triborato de lítio de tipo I, 6 mm de espessura (LBO), com um ângulo de correspondência de fase de 13,7 ° e um coeficiente não linear de 0,819 pm / V e 2) um BBO tipo I, de 3 mm de espessura com um ângulo de correspondência de fase de 23,4 ° e um coeficiente não linear de 2 pm / V 26 , 27 . 1-ps, pulsos de 20-mJ a 1.030 nm e uma intensidade de pico de 100 GW / cm 2 foram considerados como a entrada da simulação. Os resultados da simulação mostraram que o desempenho do BBO foi superior ao da LBO para SHG ( Figura 6 ). <img alt="Figura 6" class="xfigimg" src="/files/ftp_upload/55717/55717fig6.jpg" /> Figura 6 : Geração de segunda harmônica. (A) Simulado SHG enoRgy para um cristal LBO de 6 mm de espessura e um cristal BBO de 3 mm de espessura. ( B ) eficiência de SHG experimental versus intensidade de pico da bomba de entrada em um cristal BBO de 1,5 mm de espessura usando 0,5 mJ (preto) e 20 mJ (verde) da saída do amplificador. ( C ) A intensidade espectral recuperada e ( d ) o atraso grupal das medidas XFROG para diferentes eficiências SHG correspondentes aos pontos A, B e C em (b). Esta figura foi modificada de Fattahi et al. , Com permissão da referência 21 . <a href="http://ecsource.jove.com/files/ftp_upload/55717/55717fig6large.jpg" target="_blank">Clique aqui para ver uma versão maior dessa figura.</a>

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Um protocolo para a operação de uma fonte de bomba de amplificador de pulso paramétrico óptico de alta potência, de alta potência, de alta potência com base em um amplificador regenerativo de disco fino Yb: YAG é apresentado aqui.

20 mJ, 1 ps Yb: amplificador regenerativo de disco fino YAG

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Hyperpolarized Xenon for NMR and MRI Applications

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and imaging (MRI) suffer from intrinsic low sensitivity because even strong external magnetic fields of ~10 T generate only a small detectable net-magnetization of the sample at room temperature 1. Hence, most NMR and MRI applications rely on the detection of molecules at relative high concentration (e.g., water for imaging of biological tissue) or require excessive acquisition times. This limits our ability to exploit the very useful molecular specificity of NMR signals for many biochemical and medical applications. However, novel approaches have emerged in the past few years: Manipulation of the detected spin species prior to detection inside the NMR/MRI magnet can dramatically increase the magnetization and therefore allows detection of molecules at much lower concentration 2.
Here, we present a method for polarization of a xenon gas mixture (2-5% Xe, 10% N2, He balance) in a compact setup with a ca. 16000-fold signal enhancement. Modern line-narrowed diode lasers allow efficient polarization 7 and immediate use of gas mixture even if the noble gas is not separated from the other components. The SEOP apparatus is explained and determination of the achieved spin polarization is demonstrated for performance control of the method.
The hyperpolarized gas can be used for void space imaging, including gas flow imaging or diffusion studies at the interfaces with other materials 8,9. Moreover, the Xe NMR signal is extremely sensitive to its molecular environment 6. This enables the option to use it as an NMR/MRI contrast agent when dissolved in aqueous solution with functionalized molecular hosts that temporarily trap the gas 10,11. Direct detection and high-sensitivity indirect detection of such constructs is demonstrated in both spectroscopic and imaging mode.

The production of hyperpolarized xenon by means of spin exchange optical pumping (SEOP) is described. This method yields a ~10000-fold enhancement of the nuclear spin polarization of Xe-129 and has applications in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging. Examples of gas phase and solution state experiments are given.

Xenon hiperpolarizada para RMN e Aplicações de ressonância magnética

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Gradient Echo Quantum Memory in Warm Atomic Vapor

Gradient echo memory (GEM) is a protocol for storing optical quantum states of light in atomic ensembles. The primary motivation for such a technology is that quantum key distribution (QKD), which uses Heisenberg uncertainty to guarantee security of cryptographic keys, is limited in transmission distance. The development of a quantum repeater is a possible path to extend QKD range, but a repeater will need a quantum memory. In our experiments we use a gas of rubidium 87 vapor that is contained in a warm gas cell. This makes the scheme particularly simple. It is also a highly versatile scheme that enables in-memory refinement of the stored state, such as frequency shifting and bandwidth manipulation. The basis of the GEM protocol is to absorb the light into an ensemble of atoms that has been prepared in a magnetic field gradient. The reversal of this gradient leads to rephasing of the atomic polarization and thus recall of the stored optical state. We will outline how we prepare the atoms and this gradient and also describe some of the pitfalls that need to be avoided, in particular four-wave mixing, which can give rise to optical gain.

The gradient echo memory is a protocol for storing optical quantum states of light in atomic ensembles. Quantum memory is a key element of a quantum repeater, which can extend the range of quantum key distribution. We outline the operation of the scheme when implemented in a 3-level atomic ensemble.

Gradiente eco Quantum Memória em Warm Atomic Vapor

Gradient  echo memory (GEM) is a protocol for storing optical quantum states of light in  atomic ensembles. The primary motivation for such a technology ...

Construction and Characterization of External Cavity Diode Lasers for Atomic Physics

Since their development in the late 1980s, cheap, reliable external cavity diode lasers (ECDLs) have replaced complex and expensive traditional dye and Titanium Sapphire lasers as the workhorse laser of atomic physics labs1,2. Their versatility and prolific use throughout atomic physics in applications such as absorption spectroscopy and laser cooling1,2 makes it imperative for incoming students to gain a firm practical understanding of these lasers. This publication builds upon the seminal work by Wieman3, updating components, and providing a video tutorial. The setup, frequency locking and performance characterization of an ECDL will be described. Discussion of component selection and proper mounting of both diodes and gratings, the factors affecting mode selection within the cavity, proper alignment for optimal external feedback, optics setup for coarse and fine frequency sensitive measurements, a brief overview of laser locking techniques, and laser linewidth measurements are included.

This is an instructional paper to guide the construction and diagnostics of external cavity diode lasers (ECDLs), including component selection and optical alignment, as well as the basics of frequency reference spectroscopy and laser linewidth measurements for applications in the field of atomic physics.

Construção e Caracterização de externas Cavity lasers de diodo para Física Atômica

Since their development in the late 1980s, cheap, reliable external cavity diode lasers (ECDLs) have replaced complex and expensive traditional dye and ...

Stimulated Stokes and Antistokes Raman Scattering in Microspherical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators

Dielectric microspheres can confine light and sound for a length of time through high quality factor whispering gallery modes (WGM). Glass microspheres can be thought as a store of energy with a huge variety of applications: compact laser sources, highly sensitive biochemical sensors and nonlinear phenomena. A protocol for the fabrication of both the microspheres and coupling system is given. The couplers described here are tapered fibers. Efficient generation of nonlinear phenomena related to third order optical non-linear susceptibility &#935;(3) interactions in triply resonant silica microspheres is presented in this paper. The interactions here reported are: Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), and four wave mixing processes comprising Stimulated Anti-stokes Raman Scattering (SARS). A proof of the cavity-enhanced phenomenon is given by the lack of correlation among the pump, signal and idler: a resonant mode has to exist in order to obtain the pair of signal and idler. In the case of hyperparametric oscillations (four wave mixing and stimulated anti-stokes Raman scattering), the modes must fulfill the energy and momentum conservation and, last but not least, have a good spatial overlap.

Efficient generation of nonlinear phenomena related to third order optical non-linear susceptibility &#935;(3) interactions in triply resonant silica microspheres is presented in this paper. The interactions here reported are: Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), and four wave mixing processes comprising Stimulated Anti-stokes Raman Scattering (SARS).

Estimulada Stokes e Antistokes Raman Scattering em microparticulas Whispering Gallery Modo Resonators

Dielectric microspheres can confine light and sound for a length of time through high quality factor whispering gallery modes (WGM). Glass microspheres ...

Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving

We present a cooling method for a cold Fermi gas by parametrically driving atomic motions in a crossed-beam optical dipole trap (ODT). Our method employs the anharmonicity of the ODT, in which the hotter atoms at the edge of the trap feel the anharmonic components of the trapping potential, while the colder atoms in the center of the trap feel the harmonic one. By modulating the trap depth with frequencies that are resonant with the anharmonic components, we selectively excite the hotter atoms out of the trap while keeping the colder atoms in the trap, generating parametric cooling. This experimental protocol starts with a magneto-optical trap (MOT) that is loaded by a Zeeman slower. The precooled atoms in the MOT are then transferred to an ODT, and a bias magnetic field is applied to create an interacting Fermi gas. We then lower the trapping potential to prepare a cold Fermi gas near the degenerate temperature. After that, we sweep the magnetic field to the noninteracting regime of the Fermi gas, in which the parametric cooling can be manifested by modulating the intensity of the optical trapping beams. We find that the parametric cooling effect strongly depends on the modulation frequencies and amplitudes. With the optimized frequency and amplitude, we measure the dependence of the cloud energy on the modulation time. We observe that the cloud energy is changed in an anisotropic way, where the energy of the axial direction is significantly reduced by parametric driving. The cooling effect is limited to the axial direction because the dominant anharmonicity of the crossed-beam ODT is along the axial direction. Finally, we propose to extend this protocol for the trapping potentials of large anharmonicity in all directions, which provides a promising scheme for cooling quantum gases using external driving.

We present a parametric driving method to cool an ultracold Fermi gas in a crossed-beam optical dipole trap. This method selectively removes high-energy atoms from the trap by periodically modulating the trap depth with frequencies that are resonant with the anharmonic components of the trapping potential.

Arrefecimento um ultracold Fermi Gas opticamente Preso por condução Periódico

We present a cooling method for a cold Fermi gas by parametrically driving atomic motions in a crossed-beam optical dipole trap (ODT). Our method employs ...

High-speed Continuous-wave Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Spectrometer for Material Analysis

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the use of spontaneous Brillouin spectrometers for non-contact analysis of soft matter, such as aqueous solutions and biomaterials, with fast acquisition times. Here, we discuss the assembly and operation of a Brillouin spectrometer that uses stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) to measure stimulated Brillouin gain (SBG) spectra of water and lipid emulsion-based tissue-like samples in transmission mode with &lt;10 MHz spectral-resolution and &lt;35 MHz Brillouin-shift measurement precision at &lt;100 ms. The spectrometer consists of two nearly counter-propagating continuous-wave (CW) narrow-linewidth lasers at 780 nm whose frequency detuning is scanned through the material Brillouin shift. By using an ultra-narrowband hot rubidium-85 vapor notch filter and a phase-sensitive detector, the signal-to-noise-ratio of the SBG signal is significantly enhanced compared to that obtained with existing CW-SBS spectrometers. This improvement enables measurement of SBG spectra with up to 100-fold faster acquisition times, thereby facilitating high spectral-resolution and high-precision Brillouin analysis of soft materials at high speed.

We describe the construction of a rapid continuous-wave-stimulated-Brillouin-scattering (CW-SBS) spectrometer. The spectrometer employs single-frequency diode-lasers and an atomic vapor notch-filter to acquire transmission spectra of turbid/non-turbid samples with high spectral-resolution at speeds up to 100-fold faster than those of existing CW-SBS spectrometers. This improvement enables high-speed Brillouin material analysis.

Espectrômetro de espalhamento Brillouin estimulado assemelhace de alta velocidade para análise de Material

Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the use of spontaneous Brillouin spectrometers for non-contact analysis of soft matter, such as ...

Infrared Degenerate Four-wave Mixing with Upconversion Detection for Quantitative Gas Sensing

We present a protocol for performing gas spectroscopy using infrared degenerated four-wave mixing (IR-DFWM), for the quantitative detection of gas species in the ppm-to-single-percent range. The main purpose of the method is the spatially resolved detection of low-concentration species, which have no transitions in the visible or near-IR spectral range that could be used for detection. IR-DFWM is a nonintrusive method, which is a great advantage in combustion research, as inserting a probe into a flame can change it drastically. The IR-DFWM is combined with upconversion detection. This detection scheme uses sum-frequency generation to move the IR-DFWM signal from the mid-IR to the near-IR region, to take advantage of the superior noise characteristics of silicon-based detectors. This process also rejects most of the thermal background radiation. The focus of the protocol presented here is on the proper alignment of the IR-DFWM optics and on how to align an intracavity upconversion detection system.

Here, we present a protocol to perform sensitive, spatially resolved gas spectroscopy in the mid-infrared region, using degenerate four-wave mixing combined with upconversion detection.

Quatro ondas infravermelho degenerada mistura com detecção de Upconversion para detecção de gás quantitativa

We present a protocol for performing gas spectroscopy using infrared degenerated four-wave mixing (IR-DFWM), for the quantitative detection of gas species ...

Low-cost Custom Fabrication and Mode-locked Operation of an All-normal-dispersion Femtosecond Fiber Laser for Multiphoton Microscopy

A protocol is presented to build a custom low-cost yet high-performance femtosecond (fs) fiber laser. This all-normal-dispersion (ANDi) ytterbium-doped fiber laser is built completely using commercially available parts, including $8,000 in fiber optic and pump laser components, plus $4,800 in standard optical components and extra-cavity accessories. Researchers new to fiber optic device fabrication may also consider investing in basic fiber splicing and laser pulse characterization equipment (~$63,000). Important for optimal laser operation, methods to verify true versus apparent (partial or noise-like) mode-locked performance are presented. This system achieves 70 fs pulse duration with a center wavelength of approximately 1,070 nm and a pulse repetition rate of 31 MHz. This fiber laser exhibits the peak performance that may be obtained for an easily assembled fiber laser system, which makes this design ideal for research laboratories aiming to develop compact and portable fs laser technologies that enable new implementations of clinical multiphoton microscopy and fs surgery.

A method is presented to build a custom low-cost, mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser for potential applications in multiphoton microscopy, endoscopy, and photomedicine. This laser is built using commercially available parts and basic splicing techniques.

Fabricação personalizada de baixo custo e operação bloqueada pelo modo de um laser de fibra femtosecond de dispersão normal para microscopia multifoton

A protocol is presented to build a custom low-cost yet high-performance femtosecond (fs) fiber laser. This all-normal-dispersion (ANDi) ytterbium-doped ...

Rapid Repetition Rate Fluctuation Measurement of Soliton Crystals in a Microresonator

Temporal solitons have attracted great interest in the past decades for their behavior in a steady state, where the dispersion is balanced by the nonlinearity in a propagation Kerr medium. The development of dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in high-Q microcavities drives a novel, compact, chip-scale soliton source. When DKSs serve as femtosecond pulses, the repetition rate fluctuation can be applied to ultrahigh precision metrology, high-speed optical sampling, and optical clocks, etc. In this paper, the rapid repetition rate fluctuation of soliton crystals (SCs), a special state of DKSs where particle-like solitons are tightly packed and fully occupy a resonator, is measured based on the well-known delayed self-heterodyne method. The SCs are generated using a thermal-controlled method. The pump is a frequency fixed laser with a linewidth of 100 Hz. The integral time in frequency fluctuation measurements is controlled by the length of the delay fiber. For a SC with a single vacancy, the repetition rate fluctuations are ~53.24 Hz within 10 &#181;s and ~509.32 Hz within 125 &#181;s, respectively.

Here, we present a protocol to generate soliton crystals in a butterfly-packaged micro-ring resonator using a thermal tuned method. Further, the repetition rate fluctuations of a soliton crystal with a single vacancy are measured using a delayed self-heterodyne method.

Medição rápida da flutuação da taxa de repetição de cristais de soliton em um microresonator

Temporal solitons have attracted great interest in the past decades for their behavior in a steady state, where the dispersion is balanced by the ...

Optimizing Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analyzers Based on Gain Spectrum Engineering

Demonstrated is a unique method for sensing performance enhancement in Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDA). A Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) is superimposed with two symmetric Brillouin loss spectra (BLS). This leads to a complex engineered spectrum shape that is more resistant to the sensing system noise. Instead of only one pump and probe interaction as in the conventional BOTDA setup, three optical probe waves are exploited, with one probe located in the BGS and the other two symmetrically in the BLS. Due to the resistance and insensitivity of the engineered spectrum shape to the noise, the sensing performance is enhanced by 60% and the measurand resolution is doubled.

A protocol for Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers based on gain spectrum engineering is presented. Enhancements in the sensing performance, including sensing range and measurand resolution are achieved and the excess Brillouin intensity noise is studied. The protocol introduces a new way to enhance distributed Brillouin sensing performance.

Demonstrated is a unique method for sensing performance enhancement in Brillouin optical time-domain analyzers (BOTDA). A Brillouin gain spectrum (BGS) is ...