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
- Laser operation of Nd3+-doped silicates (Gd,Y)2SiO5, (Lu,Y)2SiO5 and Lu2SiO5 at ~1.36 μm SPIE Proceedings 10896 (2019) 108961T/1-8
- Sub-100-fs bulk solid-state lasers near 2-micron SPIE Proceedings, Eleventh International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP1019), Xi'an, China 11209 (2019) 112094G/1-16
- 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
- Sub-10 optical-cycle passively mode-locked Tm:(Lu2/3Sc1/3)2O3 ceramic laser at 2 µm Optics Express 26 (2018) 10299-10304
- 87 fs mode-locked Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 laser at ~2043 nm Optics Letters 43 (2018) 915-918
- Highly-efficient, compact Tm3+:RE2O3 (RE: Y, Lu, Sc) sesquioxide lasers based on thermal guiding IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 24 (2018) 1600713/1-13
- Efficient diode-pumped Er:KLu(WO4)2 laser at ~1.61 µm Optics Letters 43 (2018) 218-221
- Monoclinic Tm:MgWO4 crystal: Crystal-field analysis, tunable and vibronic laser demonstration Journal of Alloys and Compounds 763 (2018) 581-591