氟化氪短脉冲激光的放大和组束研究

为充分利用氟化氪(KrF)准分子激光放大器的长泵浦时间,探索提高激光输出效率的方法,开展紫外超短脉冲在KrF准分子激光器中多脉冲放大和组束的实验研究。采用双脉冲放大方案研究激光脉冲时间间隔对输出能量的影响,确定延时时间,提高脉冲总能量并有效抑制自发辐射(ASE)。实现了单次放大4个紫外超短脉冲,获得了近4倍于单脉冲放大的输出能量。并探索紫外超短激光脉冲的组束技术,成功应用光学角多路的方法将两个亚皮秒的紫外激光脉冲进行精确组束。     

高功率准分子激光MOPA系统光束平滑技术研究

在充分调研大型激光系统多种光束平滑技术基础上,针对高功率准分子激光系统波长短、宽频带等特点,选用了无阶梯诱导空间非相干(EFISI)技术来实现角多路高功率准分子激光系统的平滑化。利用前端部分相干散射源和严格的像传递光路,开展了光束经预放大器1三程放大和预放大器2双程放大实验,研究了光束动态均匀性。实验结果表明,基于EFISI技术的平滑方法较好地保持了散射源的光束均匀性,经预放大器1放大后不均匀性为2.04%,经预放大器2放大后不均匀性为1.96%,能够满足高功率XeCl准分子激光角多路系统建设需求。     

XeCl准分子激光能量提取研究

在高功率准分子激光系统建设中,希望能获得较短的脉冲宽度和尽量多的激光能量。实验研究了不同注入水平下,脉冲时间间隔对脉冲链放大波形和放大器提取效率的影响;基于四能级速率方程和准分子反应动力学建立了准分子激光放大模型,计算了多种注入方式下种子光的放大过程,对关键参数给出了量化描述,得到与实验相符的计算结果。研究结果显示:脉冲序列间隔为9.3ns时,可获得约95%的连续注入情形下放大能量;对该准分子激光系统来讲,9.3ns是比较合适的脉冲间隔。     

用于神光Ⅲ原型装置精密物理实验的时标激光系统

用与大型激光装置输出主激光脉冲同步的梳状脉冲作为时间标尺,标定强激光与靶丸作用的过程,对强场物理实验测量及模拟实现精密化具有重要的意义.报道了一种电光调制结合光学方法产生与主激光精确同步的多频率时标激光脉冲的光纤系统.采用电光调制产生150 ps快光脉冲,通过光纤堆积产生1053 nm的基频梳状脉冲信号,经过放大和倍频输出527和351 nm的绿光及紫外倍频梳状脉冲激光. 系统可稳定地为神光Ⅲ原型装置提供精密物理实验所必需的各种频率的时标激光,并且可根据物理实验需要灵活地调整梳状脉冲间隔和幅度,具有很好的适应性. 关键词： 激光聚变驱动器 时标光 光纤激光系统     

用于激光聚变驱动器的全光纤、全固化光脉冲产生系统

报道一种全固化、全光纤的用于高功率激光驱动的惯性约束聚变驱动器的光脉冲产生系统,采用单纵模振荡器输出连续激光信号,经过相位调制器和振幅调制器,得到一个时间波形上已整形且具有一定带宽(约0.1 nm)的激光脉冲,经光纤放大器放大并经光纤分束器分束后同时输出四路激光脉冲,各路激光脉冲先通过时间同步调整单元精确控制时间同步关系后,经可编程光纤衰减器调节各路之间的功率平衡后再通过光纤放大器做进一步放大并通过150 m光纤传输输出至预放系统.该光纤系统可输出0.3—20 ns、带宽0.1 nm、能量数纳焦的几乎任意 关键词： 激光聚变驱动器 前端 光纤激光系统     

用于ps脉冲放大的大口径放电泵浦KrF激光器

 以简单的火花间隙作为放电开关，建立了一种用于ps脉冲激光放大的大口径放电泵浦KrF准分子激光器。该激光器的有效增益口径截面为4cm×3cm，在自由运转情况下最大激光输出能量为1.3J，脉宽20ns。用作ps放大器时，利用光学偏振放大方式获得了激光能量140mJ，脉冲宽度10ps的激光输出。利用XeCl激光泵浦的染料激光作为探针测量了不同放电条件下和不同气分比条件下激光的增益和吸收系数。     

超短超强激光对比度的测量研究

 为了准确地确定飞秒激光对比度的信息，基于两束不同激光的互相关原理，利用非线性晶体对激光强度变化十分敏感的特性，研制了一台三阶相关仪，并用其对钛宝石激光放大系统输出的飞秒激光脉冲进行了测量，得到了有关该系统的强度对比度的信息。结果显示：该系统输出的激光对比度在10⁶左右，在脉冲的前沿和后沿有很强的ASE辐射，并且延续了很长的一段时间；种子脉冲的对比度在10⁵左右，而且在主脉冲前约2ps的位置上，有一个强度很低的小脉冲，在主脉冲的两翼各有一个非常小的台阶。     

用于多程放大系统光束反转器的等离子体电极电光开关

 等离子体电极电光开关将用在多程放大系统光束反转器中，作为输出控制和抑制主放大前系统内的自激振荡，由于光束反转器空间限制，等离子体电极电光开关采用一体化结构设计。介绍了紧缩型等离子体电极电光开关特性，以及在多程放大系统中的应用。实验结果表明，等离子体电极电光开关具有优良的开关性能，全口径静态透过率为94%，开关效率为989%，能够有效抑制放大器产生的自激振荡。     

紫外超短脉冲激光放大过程中脉宽压缩的方案设计

采用放电泵浦KrF准分子激光放大器放大波长为248.4nm的紫外超短脉冲激光。对于能量为0.7mJ、脉宽为550fs的输入脉冲,在光束直径保持10mm不变的条件下,能量放大到15mJ,脉宽展宽到1200fs。为了压缩输出脉冲宽度,分析了群速度色散和自相位调制效应对脉宽展宽的影响。利用棱镜对,采用4种不同的实验方案对脉冲引入负的线性频率啁啾,以补偿KrF准分子激光放大器CaF2窗镜中的群速度色散和自相位调制对脉冲引入的正的线性频率啁啾。结果表明:在放大器之前放置棱镜对的方式可以在保持输出脉冲能量为15mJ的同时,在棱镜对间距为110cm的条件下,将输出脉冲宽度压缩到370fs,输出波长为248.4nm、带宽为0.4nm。     

钛宝石飞秒激光的啁啾脉冲再生放大

根据多通放大理论计算分析了再生放大器的激光放大特性，并采用啁啾脉冲放大技术完成了钛宝石飞秒脉冲激光的再生放大实验，获得了２ｍＪ的输出脉冲能量，增益大于１０６，对有关现象作了讨论。     

Millijoule pulse energy picosecond fiber chirped-pulse amplification system

The efficient generation of a 1.17-mJ laser pulse with 360 ps duration using an ytterbium (Yb)-doped fiber amplifier chain seeded by a homemade mode-locked fiber laser is demonstrated experimentally.A specially designed figure-of-eight fiber laser acts as the seed source of a chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) system and generates mode-locked pulses with hundreds of picosecond widths.Two kinds of large-mode-area (LMA) double-clad Yb-doped fibers are employed to construct the pre-amplifier and main amplifier.All of the adopted instruments help avoid severe nonlinearity in fibers to raise sub-nanosecond pulse energy with acceptable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).The output spectrum of this fiber-based CPA system shows that amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) is suppressed to better than 30 dB,and the onset of stimulated Raman scattering is excluded.     

Simple generation of high-power,picosecond, tunable excimer laser pulses

A single excimer laser (a modified commercial oscillation-amplifier combination) is used to pump a dye laser generating a single ps pulse at twice the excimer wavelength and to amplify the frequency-doubled pulse to high peak powers. With XeCl at 308 nm an output pulse energy of 10 mJ with <5 ps pulse width was achieved with <5% ASE energy.     

Suppression of amplified spontaneous emission in a femtosecond chirped-pulse amplifier

The suppression of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) that arises during the femtosecond chirped-pulse amplification is presented. On the basis of the distinct differences in the spatial, temporal and spectral region between ASE and the amplified laser signal, the noise arising from ASE was effectively filtered out. The ratio between the amplified femtosecond pulse and the ASE peak power was higher than 10⁷. Pulses as short as 38 fs were amplified to peak power of 1.4 TW.     

小信号脉冲抽运时掺铒光纤自发辐射的研究

自发辐射(ASE)是掺铒光纤放大器(EDFA)的重要噪声源,对于由EDFA构成的光纤激光器有重要影响。理论与实践证明,它与抽运方式紧密相关,所以研究脉冲抽运时掺铒光纤(EDF)的自发辐射有重要的学术价值。同时,脉冲抽运对于EDFA锁模激光器的研究也有一定意义。从理论和实验两方面研究了小信号脉冲抽运时,抽运脉冲宽度和幅度对于EDF的自发辐射特性的影响,得到了小信号抽运时输出ASE噪声平均值的近似解析解。研究发现,小信号脉冲抽运时输出信号的幅度与抽运脉冲的宽度成正比。这个新现象可用于脉冲宽度的全光检测。     

Modeling and optimizing the pulse replicator based on the active recirculating optical loop

Signal to noise ratio (SNR) is an important parameter in the output signal of the pulse replicator. We propose a novel new method to improve this parameter. Instead of focusing on lowering the noise level of the optical amplifier and limiting the accumulation of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise in the loop, we consider the optimization of other system parameters. By modeling with a predefined implementation of the pulse replicator, an evaluation function of SNR is constructed, with variables such as the coupling ratio, the optical fiber length. In this paper, we will construct the quantitative function between SNR and the coupling ratio. According to the evaluation function, we can determine the optimal value of the coupling ratio for the coupler to obtain the best SNR within the predefined parameters. The experiment will prove that the SNR in the output signal of the pulse replicator has been increased while using the optimal coupling ratio. This will contribute greatly to future work on improving SNR of the pulse replicator.     

Double chirped-pulse-amplification laser: a way to clean pulses temporally

We demonstrate a double chirped-pulse-amplification (CPA) Ti: sapphire laser system that includes two CPA stages with intermediate nonlinear temporal pulse filtering. The method makes it possible to reduce substantially the background of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), including prepulses and postpulses. An ASE temporal contrast of 10(10) was demonstrated at 20 mJ of output energy and 50-fs pulse duration. The demonstrated scheme is applicable to petawatt power-level laser systems.     

利用脉冲负反馈压缩准分子激光脉冲

 分析了准分子激光脉冲在放大过程中的展宽现象。将饱和开关技术应用于放电泵浦激光器放大腔的放大压缩,发展了脉冲负反馈饱和压缩技术。利用该技术在天光一号系统前端LPX-150激光器上成功获得能量100 mJ、脉宽10 ns的脉冲输出,其空间分布均匀性保持在3%以内。这证明该技术可与无阶梯诱导非相干技术联合使用,在保证光束均匀性基础上进行脉冲压缩。     

Influences of ASE on the performances of Q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber lasers

The output characteristics of actively Q-switched ytterbium-doped fiber lasers (YDFL) are investigated in this paper. Our experimental results show that, the combined effect between the short switching time and the gain transient property of doped fiber causes the initial amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) power fluctuation, forming the multi-peak structure in the output pulse for either ring or linear cavity Q-switched YDFL. The pulse buildup time decreases with the rising of the pump. Moreover, since the broad-band ASE generated in the YDF is very high, it may saturate the doped fiber once the switch has been opened, making it difficult to achieve Q-switched laser oscillation for both fiber lasers. By using ASE filter to suppress the initial ASE, the gain supplied by the YDF can be greatly enhanced, which can not only decrease the threshold, but also greatly decrease the duration, and enhance the peak power of the Q-switched laser pulse as well. By using such an ASE filter, the Q-switched laser pulse with the peak power of 40.7 W and the duration of 30 ns has been achieved for the linear cavity YDFL pumped with 160 mW.     

Population inversion in sodium D_2 transition based on sodium-ethane excimer pairs

Sodium-ethane excimer pairs are studied and proved to be a great choice of excimer pumped sodium laser(XPNa L)gain media.The lifetime of the sodium D_2 line is studied in a sodium-ethane excimer system excited by a 553 nm laser,and the observed phenomenon of lifetime lengthening is discussed.Amplified spontaneous emission(ASE) of the sodium D_2 line is successfully obtained,and its time-resolved and spectroscopic characteristics are studied experimentally.According to the intensity of the ASE signal under different sodium vapor atom densities,the sodium D_2 line gain feature of sodium-ethane excimer pairs excited by the 553 nm laser is concluded.     

High-gain Tm-doped fluoride fiber amplifier

A diode-pumped Tm-doped fiber-optic amplifier that has a small-signal gain of >30 dB at 1870 nm is reported. Output pulses of up to 3-W peak power at a 1-60-kHz repetition rate can be generated by amplification of 20-40-ns laser diode pulses of up to 2-mW launched peak power. The output signal quality, i.e., the ratio of the output pulse energy and the total amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) output energy between two pulses, depends on the relative propagation direction of pump and signal and can be dramatically increased by choice of the correct propagation scheme. In the optimum pump geometry the pulse energy can be raised to as much as 20 times the ASE energy. This is the first report to the author's knowledge of fiber-optic amplification of short diode laser pulses near 1.9 microm with high repetition rates in Tm-doped fibers.