We report a compact,tunable,self-starting,all-fiber laser-based asynchronous optical sampling(ASOPS)system.Two Er-doped fiber oscillators were used as the pulsed-laser source,whose repetition rate could be set at 100 ...We report a compact,tunable,self-starting,all-fiber laser-based asynchronous optical sampling(ASOPS)system.Two Er-doped fiber oscillators were used as the pulsed-laser source,whose repetition rate could be set at 100 MHz with a tuning range of 1.25 MHz through a fiber delay line.By employing phase-locked and temperature control loops,the repetition rate offset of the two lasers was stabilized with 7.13×10^(−11)fractional instability at an average time of 1 s.Its capabilities in the terahertz regime were demonstrated by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy,achieving a spectral bandwidth of 3 THz with a dynamic range of 30 dB.The large range of repetition rate adjustment in our ASOPS system has the potential to be a powerful tool in the terahertz regime.展开更多
基金This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12134004,12104162,and 62127804)National Key R&D Program of China(No.2018YFA0306301)+1 种基金Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Major ProjectChina Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2022M711175).
文摘We report a compact,tunable,self-starting,all-fiber laser-based asynchronous optical sampling(ASOPS)system.Two Er-doped fiber oscillators were used as the pulsed-laser source,whose repetition rate could be set at 100 MHz with a tuning range of 1.25 MHz through a fiber delay line.By employing phase-locked and temperature control loops,the repetition rate offset of the two lasers was stabilized with 7.13×10^(−11)fractional instability at an average time of 1 s.Its capabilities in the terahertz regime were demonstrated by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy,achieving a spectral bandwidth of 3 THz with a dynamic range of 30 dB.The large range of repetition rate adjustment in our ASOPS system has the potential to be a powerful tool in the terahertz regime.
