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
- Graphene mode-locked Tm,Ho-codoped crystalline garnet laser producing 70-fs pulses near 2.1 µm OSA Continuum 2 (2019) 2593-2600
- Growth, spectroscopy and first laser operation of monoclinic Ho3+:MgWO4 crystal Journal of Luminescence 213 (2019) 316-325
- Fs-laser-written thulium waveguide lasers Q-switched by graphene and MoS2 Optics Express 27 (2019) 8745-8755
- “Mixed” Tm:Ca(Gd,Lu)AlO4 — a novel crystal for tunable and mode-locked 2 µm lasers Optics Express 27 (2019) 9987-9995
- Propagation and orbital angular momentum of vortex beams generated from a spiral phase plate-fiber Laser Physics Letters 16 (2019) 035106/1-5
- Femtosecond-laser-written Ho:KGd(WO4)2 waveguide laser at 2.1 μm Optics Letters 44 (2019) 1738-1741
- Diamond saw dicing of thulium channel waveguide lasers in monoclinic crystalline films Optics Letters 44 (2019) 1596-1599
- Comparative study of Yb:KYW planar waveguide lasers Q-switched by direct- and evanescent-field interaction with carbon nanotubes Optics Express 27 (2019) 1488-1496
- 67-fs pulse generation from a mode-locked Tm,Ho:CLNGG laser at 2083 nm Optics Express 27 (2019) 1922-1928
- Graphene and SESAM mode-locked Yb:CNGS lasers with self-frequency doubling properties Optics Express 27 (2019) 590-596