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
- Sb2Te3 thin film for the passive Q-switching of a Tm:GdVO4 laser Optical Materials Express 8 (2018) 1723-1732
- Tm:KY1-x-yGdxLuy(WO4)2 planar waveguide laser passively Q-switched by single-walled carbon nanotubes Optics Express 26 (2018) 4961-4966
- 1.34 μm VECSEL mode-locked with a GaSb-based SESAM Optics Letters 43 (2018) 3353-3356
- Generation of few-cycle millijoule pulses at 5 μm employing a ZnGeP2-based OPCPA pumped with GW peak power pulses at 2 μm SPIE Proceedings Series 10713 (2018) 107130W/1-4
- Bifurcation analysis in high repetition rate regenerative amplifiers IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 24 (2018) 3000213
- Generation of millijoule few-cycle pulses at 5 μm by indirect spectral shaping of the idler in an optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 35 (2018) C18-C24
- 78 fs SWCNT-SA mode-locked Tm:CLNGG disordered garnet crystal laser at 2017 nm Optics Letters 43 (2018) 4268-4271
- Comparative study of the spectroscopic and laser properties of Tm3+, Na+(Li+)-codoped Ca3Nb1.5Ga3.5O12 -type disordered garnet crystals for mode-locked lasers Optical Materials Express 8 (2018) 2287-2299
- Generation of 84-fs pulses from a mode-locked Tm:CNNGG disordered garnet crystal laser Photonics Research 6 (2018) 800-804
- Efficient diode-pumped Er:KLu(WO4)2 laser at ~1.61 µm Optics Letters 43 (2018) 218-221