FLORIDA · Fiber Laser fOr ultRafast InfrareD Applications
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-03-27 → 2023-04-30
- EU contribution
- €224,934
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Fiber Laser fOr ultRafast InfrareD Applications
Ultrafast lasers are of interest for a wide range of applications in fundamental research and their advent opened widespread applications in laser marking, laser machining, optical metrology, and spectroscopy, to name a few. Nowadays, ultrafast lasers are taking over significant market shares, especially for bright high-power ultrafast fiber lasers that own advantages of high peak power, sub-50 fs pulse duration, ease of use, and maintenance-free operation, which is crucial for industrial applications, linking directly to job creation. Tremendous progress has been made in the development of ultrafast fiber lasers in terms of the pulse peak power, the pulse duration as well as the temporal and spectral characteristics, but the maximum pulse peak power and pulse energy that can be obtained in ultrafast fiber lasers are currently limited by the maximum nonlinear phase that the pulses can tolerate. This is deeply rooted into nonlinear dynamics, which puts forward a strong demand for understanding the nonlinear dynamics of ultrafast fiber lasers, deepening the understanding of ultrafast fiber lasers and enhancing the performances of ultrafast fiber lasers that can drive the science and applications towards new frontiers. The project of FLORIDA has been to address the challenge of providing a general understanding of the rich nonlinear dynamics of ultrafast fiber lasers, which allows helping design of powerful ultrafast fiber lasers, enhancing the stability of nonlinear systems. The implementation of the project will also provide an essential tool for monitoring the laser stability and also develops early warning for applications requiring stable ultrashort pulse operation.
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Project objective
The goals of this Fellowship, entitled ""Fiber Laser fOr ultRafast InfrareD Applications"" (FLORIDA) are: (i) to train a talented Fellow (Dr. Wang) through research and tailored training programme, (ii) to provide opportunities for mutually beneficial knowledge exchange between EU host/co-hosts and the Fellow in the areas of high EU priorities, (iii) to design and develop a high-power all-fiber laser system of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) at the edge of the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength range, and (iv) to demonstrate the fiber laser system's potential in nonlinear optics in the MIR. Such a stable, powerful MIR CPA fiber system will have a significant impact on science and technology, as it will open doors towards emerging MIR laser-based science and numerous applications. Various cutting-edge nonlinear experiments including the low-noise, bright MIR supercontinuum generation, nonlinear optics in gas-filled hollow-core Photonics crystal fibers (PCFs), and high-order harmonic generation in solid state and gases will be conducted.The Fellow with the expertise in the field of ultrafast fiber lasers will be integrated into an international EU team with complimentary expertise on nonlinear optics. The Fellow will be trained in the fast-growing field of MIR ultrafast nonlinear optics, gaining new knowledge on numbers of interdisciplinary techniques, namely: (1) advanced soliton theory, (2) development of high bright MIRSCG in infrared fibers as well as in gas-filled PCF; (3) compression of high-energy MIR pulses in gas-filled PCF and (4) extreme nonlinear optics like HHG with fiber lasers. The supervisory EU team includes the world leading EU experts: Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies (AIPT), Aston University (Prof. Sergei K. Turitsyn); the Fiber Optics, Devices and Nonlinear Effects group at Technical University of Denmark (DTU, prof. Jesper Lægsgaard) and the Lund Laser Centre at Lund University (LU). (Assoc. prof. Cord Arnold and prof. Anne L’Huillier).""
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Participants
- ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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