Laser pulse spectral shaping based on electro-optic modulation

提出了一种新型的基于电光调制的激光光谱整形方案，该整形技术可以减轻啁啾脉冲放大系统中的增益窄化效应。傅立叶变换限的宽带种子激光脉冲通过光学展宽器线性展宽后，耦合到加载有整形电脉冲的集成波导调制器中进行整形，整形电脉冲由孔径耦合带状线电脉冲发生器产生。由于线性啁啾脉冲时间-频率的直接对应关系，在时域内对宽带种子激光脉冲整形，其光谱也得到了同样形状的整形。模拟了整形光谱形状，相应的整形电脉冲波形，分析了该整形技术的光谱整形分辨率，以及整形过程中引入的相位畸变。A new spectrum shaping method, based on electro-optic modulation, to alleviate gain narrowing in chirped pulse amplification (CPA) system, is described and numerically simulated. Near-Fourier transform-limited seed laser pulse is chirped linearly through optical stretcher. Then the chirped laser pulse is coupled into integrated waveguide electro-optic modulator driven by an aperture-coupled-stripline (ACSL) electrical-waveform generator, and the pulse shape and amplitude are shaped in time domain. Because of the direct relationship between frequency interval and time interval of the linearly chirped pulse, the laser pulse spectrum is shaped correspondingly. Spectrum-shaping examples are modeled numerically to determine the spectral resolution of this technique. The phase error introduced in this method is also discussed