Recent remarkable progress in wave-front shaping has enabled control of light propagation inside linear media to focus and image through scattering objects. In particular, light propagation in multimode fibers comprises complex intermodal interactions and rich spatiotemporal dynamics. Control of physical phenomena in multimode fibers and its applications is in its infancy, opening opportunities to take advantage of complex mode interactions. Various embodiments of the present technology provide wave-front shaping for controlling nonlinear phenomena in multimode fibers. Using a spatial light modulator at the fiber's input and a genetic algorithm optimization, some embodiments control a highly nonlinear stimulated Raman scattering cascade and its interplay with four wave mixing via a flexible implicit control on the superposition of modes that are coupled into the fiber.

There is described a method of tuning an output optical pulse. The method generally has: generating a seed optical pulse, the seed optical pulse having a tunable parameter; propagating the seed optical pulse into and along one of a plurality of optical fibers each having a hollow core extending along a given length, the optical fibers having a parameter being different from one another; pumping a gas inside the hollow core of the one of the optical fibers, said pumping having a tunable parameter; the propagation of the seed optical pulse into and along the one of the optical fibers modifying the seed optical pulse into the output optical pulse; and tuning the output optical pulse by modifying the tunable parameter of the seed optical pulse, modifying the one of the optical fibers along which the seed optical pulse is propagated and modifying the tunable parameter of said pumping.

The present invention provides systems and methods for producing short laser pulses that are amplified and spectrally broadened in a bulk gain media. The bulk material, having laser gain and nonlinear properties, is concurrently exposed to an optical pump input and a seed input, the pump power being sufficient to amplify and spectrally broaden the seed pulse.

A pulse light source device (100) for creating fs output laser pulses (1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3) having CEP stability comprises a pulse source device (10) creating primary ps laser pulses, a first beam splitting device (13) splitting the primary ps laser pulses to first ps laser pulses (2.1) and second ps laser pulses (2.2), a pulse shortening device (20) creating sub-ps laser pulses (3) by shortening and spectrally broadening the first ps laser pulses (2.1), a primary supercontinuum generation device (30) creating primary fs laser pulses (4), a pulse stretcher device (40) creating stretched ps laser pulses (5, 5.1) by stretching the primary fs laser pulses (4), a optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification device (51) creating amplified ps laser pulses (6, 6.1) on the basis of the stretched ps laser pulses (5, 5.1) and the second ps laser pulses (2.2); a phase stabilization device (61) creating CEP stable ps laser pulses (7, 7.1) by difference frequency generation of the amplified ps laser pulses (6, 6.1) and reference laser pulses derived from the primary ps laser pulses (2) or the sub-ps laser pulses (3), a pulse compressor device (71) creating compressed fs laser pulses (8, 8.1) by compressing the CEP stable ps laser pulses (7, 7.1) output by the phase stabilization device (61), and a secondary supercontinuum generation device (81) creating fs output laser pulses as the fs output laser pulses (1, 1.1) to be obtained by spectrally broadening the compressed fs laser pulses (8, 8.1). Furthermore, a method of creating fs output laser pulses is described.

Disclosed is a system for generating short or ultra-short light pulses, including a light source configured to emit temporally continuous-wave light radiation, an electrical generator configured to operate at a tunable frequency in a passband included between 5 and 100 GHz and to emit an analogue modulating electrical signal including at least one electrical pulse of duration included between 10 ps and 100 ps, and an electro-optical modulator having electrodes and an electrical passband that are suitable for receiving the analog modulating electrical signal, the electro-optical modulator being configured to optically amplitude modulate the continuous-wave light radiation depending of the analog modulating electrical signal and to generate modulated light radiation including at least one light pulse of duration included between 10 ps and 100 ps.

One some embodiments, a method for tuning optical components includes receiving an optical signal in a waveguide in a photonic-integrated circuit (PIC) and detecting optical outputs of the optical components. The method further includes determining pulse signals for the optical components designed to cause the optical components to each have a peak-resonance wavelength that matches a corresponding wavelength of the optical signal. The method further includes tuning the optical components by sending the pulse signals to the optical components.

A Fourier transform is performed on a first waveform function in a frequency domain, and a second waveform function in a time domain including a temporal intensity waveform function and a temporal phase waveform function is generated. A replacement of the temporal intensity waveform function based on a desired waveform is performed for the second waveform function. The second waveform function is modified so as to bring a spectrogram of the second waveform function close to a target spectrogram generated in advance in accordance with a desired wavelength band. An inverse Fourier transform is performed on the modified second waveform function, and a third waveform function in the frequency domain is generated. Data is generated on the basis of an intensity spectrum function or a phase spectrum function of the third waveform function.

A dispersion measuring device includes a pulse forming unit, a light detection unit, a control unit, and an arithmetic operation unit. The control unit selectively outputs a first phase pattern and a second phase pattern. The pulse forming unit forms an optical pulse train from initial pulsed light, the optical pulse train including a plurality of optical pulses having a time difference from each other and having different center wavelengths from each other. The light detection unit detects a temporal waveform of the optical pulse train. The arithmetic operation unit estimates a wavelength dispersion amount of a measurement object based on a feature amount of the temporal waveform of the optical pulse train. When the first phase pattern is output, a pulse having a long center wavelength is generated first. When the second phase pattern is output, a pulse having a short center wavelength is generated first.

Laser-drilling apparatus includes a gas-discharge for laser emitting laser-radiation pulses, and two acousto-optic modulators (AOMs). The laser radiation pulses are characterized as having two temporal central portions between temporal leading and trailing edge portions. The AOMs are arranged to spatially separate the central temporal portions of the pulses from each other and from the leading and trailing edge portions of the pulses.

A soliton generation apparatus comprising: an optical resonator; a pumping laser for providing light at a pumping wavelength into the optical resonator; a generator for generating multiple solitons in the optical resonator; a detuning device for changing the wavelength detuning between the pumping laser wavelength and an optical resonance wavelength of the optical resonator to remove at least one soliton of the generated multiple solitons to provide (i) a plurality of solitons that comprises at least one less soliton than that of the generated multiple solitons or (ii) a single soliton in the optical resonator.