High-power broadband laser source tunable from 3.0 mu m to 4.4 mu m based on a femtosecond Yb:fiber oscillator

作者：Neely Tyler W^*; Johnson Todd A; Diddams Scott A

来源：Optics Letters, 2011, 36(20): 4020-4022.

DOI：10.1364/ol.36.004020

We describe a tunable broadband mid-IR laser source based on difference-frequency mixing of a 100 MHz femtosecond Yb:fiber laser oscillator and a Raman-shifted soliton generated with the same laser. The resulting light is tunable over 3.0 mu m to 4.4 mu m, with a FWHM bandwidth of 170 nm and maximum average output power up to 125 mW. The noise and coherence properties of this source are also investigated and described.

• 出版日期2011-10-15