Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Dr. Uwe Griebner

uwe.griebner(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1457

C2: Solid State Light Sources
Building C, 2.22

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. Sub-100-fs bulk solid-state lasers near 2-micron

    V. Petrov, Y. Wang, W. Chen, Z. Pan, Y. Zhao, L. Wang, M. Mero, S. Y. Choi, F. Rotermund, W. B. Cho, W. Jing, H. Huang, H. Yuan, H. Cai, L. Zhang, Z. Lin, P. Loiko, X. Mateos, X. Xu, J. Xu, H. Yu, H. Zhang, S. Suomalainen, M. Guina, A. Härkönen, U. Griebner

     SPIE Proceedings, Eleventh International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP1019), Xi'an, China 11209 (2019) 112094G/1-16
  2. Laser operation of Nd3+-doped silicates (Gd,Y)2SiO5, (Lu,Y)2SiO5 and Lu2SiO5 at ~1.36 μm

    X. Zhang, P. Loiko, J. M. Serres, X. Mateos, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, U. Griebner, V. Petrov, X. Xu, Z. Wang, J. Xu, X. Xu, A. Major

     SPIE Proceedings 10896 (2019) 108961T/1-8
  3. Graphene mode-locked Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline garnet laser producing 70-fs pulses near 2.1 µm

    Y. Zhao, W. Chen, L. Wang, Y. Wang, Z. Pan, X. Dai, H. Yuan, H. Cai, Y. Zhang, J. E. Bae, T. G. Park, F. Rotermund, P. Loiko, J. M. Serres, X. Mateos, D. Shen, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

     OSA Continuum 2 (2019) 2593-2600
  4. Growth, spectroscopy and first laser operation of monoclinic Ho3+:MgWO4 crystal

    L. Zhang, P. Loiko, J. M. Serres, E. Kifle, H. Lin, G. Zhang, E. Vilejshikova, E. Dunina, A. Kornienko, L. Fomichev, U. Griebner, V. Petrov, Z. Lin, W. Chen, K. Subbotin, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, X. Mateos

     Journal of Luminescence 213 (2019) 316-325
  5. Fs-laser-written thulium waveguide lasers Q-switched by graphene and MoS2

    E. Kifle, P. Loiko, Vázquez de Aldana, J. R. , C. Romero, A. Ródenas, V. Zakharov, A. Veniaminov, H. Yu, H. Zhang, Y. Chen, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, U. Griebner, V. Petrov, X. Mateos

     Optics Express 27 (2019) 8745-8755
  6. “Mixed” Tm:Ca(Gd,Lu)AlO4 — a novel crystal for tunable and mode-locked 2 µm lasers

    Z. Pan, P. Loiko, J. M. Serres, E. Kifle, H. Yuan, X. Dai, H. Cai, Y. Wang, Y. Zhao, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, U. Griebner, V. Petrov, X. Mateos

     Optics Express 27 (2019) 9987-9995
  7. Generation of millijoule few-cycle pulses at 5  μm by indirect spectral shaping of the idler in an optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier

    M. Bock, von Grafenstein, L., U. Griebner, T. Elsaesser

     Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 35 (2018) C18-C24
  8. Bifurcation analysis in high repetition rate regenerative amplifiers

    von Grafenstein, L., M. Bock, U. Griebner

     IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 24 (2018) 3000213
  9. Generation of few-cycle millijoule pulses at 5 μm employing a ZnGeP2-based OPCPA pumped with GW peak power pulses at 2 μm

    U. Griebner, von Grafenstein, L., M. Bock, T. Elsaesser

     SPIE Proceedings Series 10713 (2018) 107130W/1-4
  10. 1.34  μm VECSEL mode-locked with a GaSb-based SESAM

    A. Härkönen, S. Suomalainen, A. Rantamäki, J. Nikkinen, Y. Wang, U. Griebner, G. Steinmeyer, M. Guina

    Optics Letters 43 (2018) 3353-3356