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. Sb2Te3 thin film for the passive Q-switching of a Tm:GdVO4 laser

    P. Loiko, J. Bogusławski, J. M. Serres, E. Kifle, M. Kowalczyk, X. Mateos, J. Sotor, R. Zybała, K. Mars, A. Mikuła, K. Kaszyca, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

     Optical Materials Express 8 (2018) 1723-1732
  2. Tm:KY1-x-yGdxLuy(WO4)2 planar waveguide laser passively Q-switched by single-walled carbon nanotubes

    E. Kifle, X. Mateos, P. Loiko, S. Y. Choi, J. E. Bae, F. Rotermund, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

     Optics Express 26 (2018) 4961-4966
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 78  fs SWCNT-SA mode-locked Tm:CLNGG disordered garnet crystal laser at 2017 nm

    Y. Wang, Y. Zhao, Z. Pan, J. E. Bae, S. Y. Choi, F. Rotermund, P. Loiko, J. M. Serres, X. Mateos, H. Yu, H. Zhang, M. Mero, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

     Optics Letters 43 (2018) 4268-4271
  8. Comparative study of the spectroscopic and laser properties of Tm3+, Na+(Li+)-codoped Ca3Nb1.5Ga3.5O12 -type disordered garnet crystals for mode-locked lasers

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

     Optical Materials Express 8 (2018) 2287-2299
  9. Generation of 84-fs pulses from a mode-locked Tm:CNNGG disordered garnet crystal laser

    Z. Pan, Y. Wang, Y. Zhao, H. Yuan, X. Dai, H. Cai, J. E. Bae, S. Y. Choi, F. Rotermund, X. Mateos, J. M. Serres, P. Loiko, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

     Photonics Research 6 (2018) 800-804
  10. Efficient diode-pumped Er:KLu(WO4)2 laser at ~1.61 µm

    J. M. Serres, P. Loiko, V. Jambunathan, X. Mateos, V. Vitkin, A. Lucianetti, T. Mocek, M. Aguilo, F. Diaz, U. Griebner, V. Petrov

     Optics Letters 43 (2018) 218-221