A V Gladyshev

4.4-μm Raman laser based on hollow-core silica fibre

A Raman laser with a wavelength exceeding 4 μm is designed for the first time. Using a revolver silica fibre with a hollow core filled with molecular hydrogen (1H2) as an active medium, we have obtained SRS lasing at a wavelength of 4.4 μm under pumping by a pulsed erbium fibre laser (λ = 1.56 μm, τ = 2 ns). The SRS conversion quantum efficiency reaches 15 %, and the maximum output peak power at a wavelength of 4.4 μm is 0.6 kW.

Multiband supercontinuum generation in an air-core revolver fibre

Multiband supercontinuum generation in an air-core revolver fibre having a large number of transmission bands in a wide spectral range has been studied experimentally and theoretically for the first time. The fibre fabricated by us possesses unique dispersion and guidance characteristics for radiation transfer from one band to another despite the high losses at the band boundaries. In our experiments, launching 205-fs laser pulses of 110 μJ energy at 1028 nm into the fibre we have obtained a supercontinuum spanning the spectral range from 415 to 1593 nm, with 11 transmission bands. Numerical simulation suggests that, in the case of single-mode propagation of pulses with such energy in the fibre, the supercontinuum may span 14 transmission bands and have a spectral width above three octaves, with a long-wavelength edge at 4200 nm.

Extracavity and external cavity second-harmonic generation in a periodically poled silica fibre

We have studied second-harmonic generation (SHG) of a cw single-frequency ytterbium-doped fibre laser, using a periodically poled silica fibre as a nonlinear medium for frequency conversion. All-fibre external cavity SHG has been investigated for the first time. A twofold increase in second-harmonic power in a fibre ring cavity has been demonstrated and possibilities of further optimising the fibre scheme have been analysed.

Propagation of femtosecond pulses in a hollow-core revolver fibre

We have studied for the first time the propagation of femtosecond pulses through an optical fibre with an air-filled hollow core and a cladding in the form of one ring of noncontacting cylindrical capillaries for high-power radiation transmission in the 1.55-μm telecom range. Numerical analysis results demonstrate that the parameters of the fibre enable radiation transmission in the form of megawatt-power Raman solitons through up to a 25-m length of the fibre and tuning of the emission wavelength over 130 nm. We have experimentally demonstrated femtosecond pulse transmission through fibres up to 5 m in length in the linear propagation regime, without distortions of the pulse spectrum, with a dispersion-induced temporal pulse broadening within 20%.

Femtosecond pulse propagation in the negative curvature hollow-core revolver fiber

For the first time femtosecond pulse propagation has been numerically and experimentally studied in the hollow-core revolver fiber with a non-coupled cylindrical capillaries-based cladding, fabricated for high-power ultra-short pulse delivery in the telecom band near 1.55 μm.

Low-threshold 1064 to 1907 nm hydrogen Raman laser based on hollow-core fiber

1907 nm generation by pure vibrational stimulated Raman scattering in hydrogen-filled hollow-core fiber is demonstrated. Due to special design of hollow-core revolver fiber with nested capillaries, the Raman threshold as low as 270 W of peak power is achieved.