MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Position

Project Coordinator 4.1: Implementation of Lasers and Measuring Techniques

Research

Development of advanced ultrashort pulse lasers, amplifiers, and parametric devices operating in the near- and mid-IR wavelength ranges including components and complete systems for direct implementation within other projects at MBI.

An example is the development of novel CPA laser sources emitting around 2 µm wavelength. This laser system operating at kilohertz repetition rate will serve as driver for OPCPA in the mid-IR. Figure (a) shows the simulated bifurcation diagram of a Ho:YLF regenerative amplifier (RA) at a 1 kHz repetition rate and 24 round trips indicating the most interesting operation regimes, i.e., stable double-pulsing (yellow coded bar) and the single-energy regime (green coded bar) beyond the final bifurcation point (BP final). Based on our model the RA is designed for operation in the single-energy regime beyond BPfinal. The measured complete RA bifurcation diagram of the re-designed RA at 1 kHz and 24 round trips is presented in Fig. (b). It agrees well with our numerical simulations [Fig. (a)]. Only the predicted multi-pulsing between 20 and 30 W pump power is less pronounced in the experiment. The highest pulse energy of 12 mJ can be extracted in the stable double-pulsing regime in the upper bifurcation branch (yellow coded bar), however at 0.5 kHz, the half of the repetition rate. BPfinal appears at a pump power of 47 W and denotes the transition to the single-energy regime where any multi-stabilities and chaotic behavior have been overcome. The extracted RA pulse energy of 9.7 mJ is the by far highest reported for 2-µm RAs operating in the single-energy regime. Taking into account the applied pump power of 50 W, the extraction efficiency is as high as 19.5%. Performing the transition from the stable double-pulsing to the single-energy regime, the RA’s pulse-to-pulse stability is further improved with a rms value <0.5%. Figure (c) shows the corresponding pulse stability measurement in the vicinity of BPfinal and beyond in the single-energy regime (green coded bar).

Curriculum vitae

since 1992 Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany, staff scientist and project coordinator.

1993 - 1996 Ph.D. thesis at the Optical Institute, Technical University Berlin, Germany, with Prof. Horst Weber,
Title of thesis: Fiber bundle lasers with high average power,

1989 - 1992 Institute of Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany, staff scientist,

1986 - 1989 Institute of Mechanics, Chemnitz, Germany, staff scientist,

1981 - 1986 Diploma degree in Physics; Physics Department, University of Jena, Germany,
Title of thesis: Characterization of lattice distorsions in LiF crystals,

MBI Publications

  1. Deformation measurements of high speed MEMS with sub-picosecond pulses using combined digital holographic two-wavelength contouring and single phase reconstruction

    T. Hansel, U. Griebner, J. Bonitz, C. Kaufmann

    SPIE Proceedings 7362 (2009) 736219/1-12
  2. Deformation measurements of high-speed MEMS with combined two-wavelength single-pulse digital holography and single phase reconstruction using subpicosecond pulses

    T. Hansel, R. Grunwald, K. Reimann, J. Bonitz, C. Kaufmann, U. Griebner

    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 15 (2009) 1351-1358
  3. Time-resolved two-wavelength contouring of adaptive fluidic PDMS-lenses

    T. Hansel, R. Grunwald, G. Steinmeyer, U. Griebner, F. Schneider, U. Wallrabe

    SPIE Proceedings 7358 (2009) 735809/1-9
  4. Synthesized femtosecond laser pulse source for two-wavelength contouring with simultaneously recorded digital holograms

    T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, R. Grunwald, C. Falldorf, J. Bonitz, C. Kaufmann, V. Kebbel, U. Griebner

    Optics Express 17 (2009) 2686-2695
  5. Mode-locked InGaAs-AlGaAs disk laser generating sub-200-fs pulses, pulse picking and amplification by a tapered diode amplifier

    P. Klopp, U. Griebner, M. Zorn, A. Klehr, A. Liero, M. Weyers, G. Erbert

    Optics Express 17 (2009) 10820-10834
  6. Passive mode-locking of the Yb:CNGG laser

    A. Schmidt, U. Griebner, H. Zhang, J. Wang, M. Jiang, J. Liu, V. Petrov

    Optics Communications 283 (2009) 567-569
  7. Sub-100 fs single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber mode-locked Yb-laser operation near 1µm

    A. Schmidt, S. Rivier, W. B. Cho, J. H. Yim, S. Y. Choi, S. Lee, F. Rotermund, D. Rytz, G. Steinmeyer, V. Petrov, U. Griebner

    Optics Express 17 (2009) 20109-20116
  8. Infrared spectroscopic and laser characterization of Tm in disordered double tungstates

    J. M. Cano-Torres, X. Han, A. Garcia-Cortés, M. D. Serrano, C. Zaldo, F. J. Valle, X. Mateos, S. Rivier, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

    Materials Science and Engineering B 146 (2008) 22-28
  9. Sub-90 fs pulses from a passively mode-locked Yb:YAl3(BO3)4

    S. Rivier, U. Griebner, V. Petrov, H. Zhang, J. Li, J. Wang, J. Liu

    Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics 93 (2008) 753-757
  10. Thin-disk Yb:KLu(WO4)2 laser with single-pass pumping

    S. Rivier, X. Mateos, O. Silvestre, V. Petrov, U. Griebner, M. C. Pujol, M. Aguilo, F. Diaz, S. Vernay, D. Rytz

    Optics Letters 33 (2008) 735-737