1. Mid-infrared parametric generation in OP-GaAs waveguides pumped by a femtosecond erbium-doped fluoride fiber laser
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Arnaud Grisard, Bruno Gérard, Sébastien Février, Eric Lallier, Thomas Godin, Saïd Idlahcen, Myriam Bailly, Ammar Hideur, Hugo Delahaye, Rezki Becheker, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Complexe de recherche interprofessionnel en aérothermochimie (CORIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), EDF (EDF), Photonique Fibre et Sources Cohérentes (XLIM-PHOT), XLIM (XLIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Thales Research and Technology [Palaiseau], and THALES
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Quasi-phase-matching ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics] ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Doping ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Soliton (optics) ,Signal ,Erbium ,Wavelength ,chemistry ,Fiber laser ,Femtosecond ,Optoelectronics ,business ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
We report on the design of OP-GaAs rib waveguides for frequency conversion in the mid-infrared and explore their performances for parametric generation. The samples used are between 10 and 25 mm long and exhibit quasi-phasematched (QPM) periods from 85 to 100 μm. The waveguides are pumped by a femtosecond erbium-doped fluoride fiber laser combined with a soliton self-frequency shift converter delivering sub-300 fs pulses at a wavelength tunable between 2.8 and 3.3 μm. By adjusting the pump wavelength, our OP-GaAs platform can produce ultrashort pulses widely tunable around 4 and 12 μm for the signal and idler, respectively. These results fit quite well our calculations of QPM curves.
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- 2021
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