Theoretical study of collinear optical frequency comb generation under multi-wave, transient stimulated Raman scattering in crystals

Abstract

Using mathematical modelling we have studied the conditions of low-threshold collinear optical frequency comb generation under transient (picosecond) stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and parametric four-wave coupling of SRS components in crystals. It is shown that Raman-parametric generation of an octave-spanning optical frequency comb occurs most effectively under intermediate, transient SRS at a pump pulse duration exceeding the dephasing time by five-to-twenty times. We have found the optimal values of not only the laser pump pulse duration, but also of the Raman crystal lengths corresponding to highly efficient generation of an optical frequency comb from the second anti-Stokes to the fourth Stokes Raman components. For the (high dispersion) and (low dispersion) crystals pumped at a wavelength of and a pulse duration five or more times greater than the dephasing time, the optimum length of the crystal was 0.3 and , respectively, which is consistent with the condition of the most effective Stokes – anti-Stokes coupling , where is the wave detuning from phase matching of Stokes – anti-Stokes coupling, determined by the refractive index dispersion of the SRS medium.