增益分布对皮秒脉冲自相似放大的影响

Effects of gain distribution on self-similar amplification of picosecond pulses

采用数值模拟的方法,研究了增益分布对皮秒脉冲自相似放大的影响。构建了掺镱光纤内超短激光脉冲自相似放大的理论模型,以不同的泵浦方式、光纤长度和总增益系数实现不同的增益分布,探究了不同增益分布对增益光纤中皮秒脉冲的自相似放大过程和结果的影响。结果表明,皮秒脉冲在不同的增益分布下存在最佳的自相似放大结果,可以得到近变换极限的百飞秒高质量脉冲输出。发现同一信号光脉冲在增益光纤中演化至自相似放大过程时,正向泵浦方式下的演化速度比反向泵浦快。对于不同的增益光纤长度和总增益系数,正向泵浦方式下的信号光自相似区域主要集中在低入射脉冲能量和长波长区域,反向泵浦方式下的信号光自相似区域主要集中在高入射脉冲能量和短波长区域。

The effects of gain distribution on self-similar amplification of picosecond pulses in a Yb-doped fiber laser system were studied by numerical simulation. Ultrashort laser pulses amplified in self-similar amplification theoretical model was established to analyze the impact of pump configuration, fiber length and total gain coefficient on the self-similar amplification evolution and laser output performance. Detailed numerical simulation reveals that the best self-similar amplification result can be found for different cases, where high-quality self-similar pulses with ~100 fs transform-limited pulse duration are obtained. It is demonstrated that the self-similar evolution speed in a forward-pumping scheme is faster than that in a backward-pumping scheme for a fixed seed pulse. Furthermore, the results indicate that for the self-similar amplifier with different fiber lengths and gain coefficients, the forward-pumping scheme shows better evolution results in lower seed energy and longer wavelength range, while the backward-pumping scheme is more suitable for the higher seed energy and shorter wavelength range.