Volume 18, Issue 8 2400166
Research Article

Highly Birefringence-Guided Microfiber Resonator for Ultra-High Repetition Rate Ultrashort Pulse

Xiwei Huang

Xiwei Huang

School of Physics & Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Xiaoxiao Guo

Xiaoxiao Guo

School of Physics & Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Xiangzhen Huang

Xiangzhen Huang

School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082 China

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Fang Peng

Fang Peng

School of Physics & Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Xiaohui Li

Corresponding Author

Xiaohui Li

School of Physics & Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119 China

E-mail: [email protected]

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Zhiyi Wei

Zhiyi Wei

Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Unive, rsity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 101408 China

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Qijie Wang

Qijie Wang

School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798 Singapore

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First published: 09 April 2024
Citations: 23

Abstract

In the past, most of the introduced ultrafast pulse lasers have primarily focused on shortening cavity lengths or employing harmonic mode-locking methods to achieve megahertz and gigahertz coherent pulses. In contrast, lasers generating pulses at terahertz repetition rates seemed to have received less attention. These pulses are crucial for applications in fields such as biological imaging, quantum computing, and atmospheric earth sciences, requiring ultra-high repetition rates and ultrafast pulses. Here, an all-fiber laser system is presented that generates ultra-high repetition rate pulses. It relies on the comb-like filtering effect of a microfiber resonator and the interaction with high birefringence. This enables the production of terahertz-class pulses with a pulse interval of ≈290 fs, achieving a remarkable maximum repetition rate of about ≈3.448 THz. To the authors’ knowledge, this stands as the highest pulse repetition rate achievable in an all-fiber laser. By contrast experiment, the terahertz repetition rate produced by this system is related to the length of the high-birefringence fiber; the shorter the length, the wider the filtering spacing, and the higher the achievable repetition rate. The overall system's birefringence effect can be adjusted by two polarization controllers, allowing for a wide range of tunability in pulse repetition rates.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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