A 45-μJ, 10-kHz,burst-mode picosecond optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped at a second harmonic cavity

A novel high-energy picosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) was realized by placing an OPO in a second-harmonic (SH) cavity. In a proof-of-principle experiment, we demonstrated excellent burst energy of 45 μJ for the OPO signal at 900 nm that operates at a pulse repetition rate of 10 kHz and a pulse width of 46.8 ps. The beam quality was measured as $M^{2}_{x} = 1.44$ and $M^{2}_{y} = 1.40$ in the orthogonal directions, corresponding to an average beam factor $M^{2} = 1.42$. So far, this study is the first to investigate high-energy ps OPO synchronously pumped in a second-harmonic cavity.     

22 GHz窄线宽全光纤激光器实现2.62 kW近衍射极限输出

基于大模场面积掺镱光纤搭建了全光纤1064 nm高功率窄线宽光纤激光主振荡功率放大系统,实现了2625 W的最高功率输出,斜率效率76%。最高输出功率时,光束质量为Mx2=1.273,My2=1.255,3 dB光谱宽度为21.7 GHz,这是目前全光纤激光器在该光谱线宽下实现的最高输出功率。     

Implementation of the concept of neutral gain modules in thin-disk lasers

Experimental results of the implementation of our concept of neutral gain modules (NGM) in high-power thin-disk lasers are presented. To demonstrate power scalability and high brightness, series of NGMs comprising up to four Yb:YAG thin-disk laser modules have been integrated in various ways into stable and unstable resonators. Furthermore, to compensate for the parabolic component of the remaining thermal lens effects in the high-power regime, an intracavity deformable mirror was embedded. On the basis of the underlying concept, in our experiments an output power of nearly 3 kW with a beam propagation factor $M^2 = 5$ as well as a brightness up to $B = 21\,{\rm GW}/{\rm cm ^2} \, {\rm sr }$ could be demonstrated. Compensating systematically for the nonparabolic components of the phase aberrations, the concept also enables a further enhancement of the beam quality. The principle is transferable to other laser configurations, e.g., master oscillator power amplifier systems.     

侧面泵浦主振荡功率放大器中的光束质量提高

报道了一种利用球差补偿效应提高侧面泵浦主振荡功率放大器输出光束质量的实验装置。在理论上提出了一种新的球差补偿方法,利用正球差经过会聚透镜焦点后向负球差转化的现象,补偿下一放大级中的正球差效应。在实验上搭建了两级放大的侧面泵浦Nd:YAG主振荡功率放大器。在连续输出的情况下,从振荡级输出功率为42W、光束质量因子为1.48的种子光,经过一级放大后的功率为74W,光束质量因子恶化为1.80;继续经过二级放大后,光束质量因子提高为1.40。实验结果表明,所提出的球差补偿理论是提高激光放大过程中光束质量的有效手段。     

kW级主振荡功率放大光纤激光器输出特性

分析了kW级光纤激光器实现单模激光输出的模式控制方式。采用主振荡功率放大方式,实现了工作波长1.08 m、最大输出功率1.05 kW的全光纤单模激光输出。对激光光谱和光束质量随激光功率的变化等输出特性进行了研究,结果表明:随着激光功率的增大中心波长和光束质量无变化,但谱宽逐渐展宽。分析了激光光谱展宽的原因,认为随着激光功率的增大,光栅纤芯的折射率变化增大,引起本振级的谱宽展宽,而本振级因谱宽展宽引入的噪声在放大级被放大,再加上放大级本身引入的自发辐射,共同造成放大级的谱宽展宽。对光束质量变差的原因进行了分析,认为光纤弯曲导致原先在纤芯中传输的激光部分被泄露到包层中,从而使光束质量变差。     

Generation of high energy and good beam quality pulses with a master oscillator power amplifier

A high efficiency and high peak power laser system with short-pulse and good beam quality has been demonstrated by using a master oscillator power amplifier with two-pass amplification configuration. The master oscillator, end-pumped with a fiber-coupled laser diode array, provides low power but excellent beam quality pulses, and the amplifier boosts the pulse energy by orders without significant beam quality degradation. Short pulses of 8.5 ns with energy up to 130 mJ and approximately diffraction limited beam quality have been demonstrated.     

主振荡功率放大结构窄线宽全光纤激光器334 W高功率输出

 搭建了一台全光纤结构的窄线宽高功率掺镱光纤激光器。种子激光的输出功率大于40 mW,线宽窄于100 MHz。采用主振荡功率放大结构三级放大,主放泵浦功率为405 W时得到了334 W的窄线宽高功率激光输出,光光转换效率为82.4%。目前,激光器输出功率仅受限于泵浦功率,增加有效泵浦功率即有望进一步提高输出功率。     

Injection-Seeded 500 Hz Repetition Rate High Peak Power Single-Frequency Nd:YAG Laser for Mid-Infrared Generation

We develop an injection-seeded single-frequency neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser with 500 Hz repetition rate and high peak power. The laser construction is designed as seed injection and master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) including single-frequency master oscillator, extra-cavity frequency doubling crystal, and round-trip power amplifier. The master oscillator can emit 1,064 nm laser of 8.4 mJ with 6.8 ns pulse width at the pump energy equal to 23 mJ. A green laser energy of 1.1 mJ is obtained by setting the proper temperature of the LBO crystal. The pulse energy of 1,064 nm laser decreases to 6.5 mJ after passing through the LBO crystal and rises to 25.3 mJ after a round-trip power amplifier corresponding to the extraction efficiency of 29%. The final output pulse width is 6.5 ns, representing a peak power of 3.9 MW. The 1,064 nm laser beam quality factor M² of the master oscillator and the amplified one are 1.3 and 1.5, respectively. The laser will be used to generate mid-infrared where the 532 nm laser with narrow pulse width is to pump sheet optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and the 1,064 nm laser with high peak power to pump the OPO.     

M2 factor of four-petal Gaussian beam

Based on the second-order moments, this paper derives an analytical expression of the M^2 factor of four-petal Gaussian beam. The results show that the M^2 factor is only determined by the beam order n. The corresponding numerical calculations are also given. As the beam order increases, the augment of M^2 factor is disciplinary. As the expression of M^2 factor is expressed in series form and becomes more complicated, a new concise formula of M^2 factor is also presented by using curve fitting of numerical calculations. When 3 ≤ n ≤ 200, the maximum error rate of fitting formula will not exceed 2.6% and the average error rate is 0.28%. This research is helpful to the applications of four-petal Gaussian beam.     

全光纤结构高功率主振荡功率放大型单频光纤激光器

研制了一台全光纤结构主振荡功率放大型掺镱单频光纤激光器。该光纤激光器包括种子激光器和级联放大器两部分。种子激光器是自行搭建的环形腔结构的单频窄线宽光纤激光器。在976 nm半导体激光器泵浦下,能够输出线宽为10 MHz量级、波长为1 079.88 nm的单频光,激光功率为10.02 W,光-光转化效率为58.9%,斜率效率为65.3%。     

基于简单MOPA结构实现3.08 kW全光纤窄线宽线偏振激光输出

基于简单的主振荡功率放大结构,演示了一种高功率窄线宽线性偏振全光纤激光器,其最大输出功率为3.08 kW,3 dB线宽为0.2 nm。在整个功率缩放过程中,偏振消光比约为94%,光束质量M 2约为1.4。这是国内外首次实现3 kW全保偏光纤激光输出,与基于相位调制的窄线宽激光器相比,该激光器可实现近似的线宽,同时具有受激布里渊散射阈值高、系统结构简单、成本低等特点。     

400 Hz高光束质量高功率短脉冲激光器

研制了大能量高光束质量短脉冲激光器,系统采用主振荡+预放大器+主放大器2级主振荡功率放大器(MOPA)结构。采用双棒热效应补偿改善光束质量的措施,在重复频率400 Hz时实现单脉冲能量40 mJ、光束质量因子约为1.2的激光输出。激光器放大后实现单路脉冲能量712.5 mJ、脉宽12.4 ns的激光输出,采用球差补偿的方法提高了激光器的光束质量,在最大输出功率下实现了光束质量因子小于2.3,光光效率27.7%。偏振合束后,激光器输出能量大于1.4 J。     

窄线宽光纤激光器在1030 nm波段实现3 kW近衍射极限输出

基于大模场面积掺镱光纤搭建了全光纤1030 nm高功率窄线宽光纤激光主振荡功率放大系统,实现了3004 W的最高功率输出,斜率效率69.27%,是目前报道的输出功率最高的1030 nm波段近衍射极限光纤激光器。最高输出功率时,x,y方向的光束质量因子分别为1.169,1.174,3 dB光谱宽度为0.18 nm,放大自发辐射抑制比达到37 dB。     

300 W quasi-continuous-wave diffraction-limited output from a diode-pumped Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier with fiber phase-conjugate stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror

A master oscillator power amplifier system comprising a cw Nd:YAG master oscillator, a quasi-cw diode-pumped power amplifier, and a fiber-based stimulated Brillouin scattering phase-conjugate mirror is reported. A 12-pass amplifier configuration is employed to achieve high gain in a small-length slab amplifier. Residual and pump-induced optical inhomogeneities in the slab are corrected by the fiber phase conjugator to achieve diffraction-limited output beam quality. 300 W quasi-cw output and a maximal attainable gain of approximately 150 for the system are obtained.     

High-energy picosecond single-pass multi-stage optical parametric generator and amplifier

We demonstrate a new management of multi-stage optical parametric generator(OPG)and amplifier(OPA)to obtain high-energy picosecond sources with high beam quality.The setup of multi-stage OPG-OPA requires mode-matching between the pump beam and the stable mode of the OPG-OPA.In a proof-of-principle experiment,the single-pass multi-stage OPG-OPA consists of three walk-off compensated KTP crystal pairs and two lenses,pumped by an 86 ps,1064 nm 10 kHz picosecond laser.The signal light at~1.77μm has an average output power of 502 mW with record energy up to 50.2μJ.The beam quality factor of the signal light can be improved toM²_x ×M²_yafter filtering out about 40%signal power.To the best of our knowledge,it is the first picosecond single-pass multi-stage OPG-OPA pumped at kHz regime.     

Coherent combination of high-power, zigzag slab lasers

We demonstrate a scalable architecture for a high-power, high-brightness, solid-state laser based on coherent combinations of master oscillator power amplifier chains. A common master oscillator injects a sequence of multikilowatt Nd:YAG zigzag slab amplifiers. Adaptive optics correct the wavefront of each amplified beamlet. The beamlets are tiled side by side and actively phase locked to form a single output beam. The laser produces 19 kW with beam quality <2x diffraction limited. To the best of our knowledge, this is the brightest cw solid-state laser demonstrated to date.     

光纤激光共孔径光谱合成实现5kW高效优质输出

采用多层介质膜衍射光栅实现多路高功率光纤激光共孔径光谱合成有望成为光纤激光同时实现高功率、高效率和高光束质量的最具发展潜力的技术途径。搭建了一套基于双光栅色散补偿设计的5kW共孔径光谱合成系统。采用国产多层介质膜衍射光栅实现了5路kW级窄谱子束激光的高效优质共孔径光谱合成,最大输出功率达5.07kW,光束质量因子(M2)小于3,合成效率达到91.2%。初步研究表明:多层介质膜衍射光栅在较高功率水平、较宽光谱范围内均能保持较高衍射效率,是实现高功率光纤激光高效率光谱合成的重要器件;参与合成的子束自身的光束质量水平和线宽是影响合成输出光束质量的重要因素,光谱合成系统的输出功率主要受限于窄谱子束的输出功率和合成路数,增加窄谱子束的功率或合成路数均可进一步提升系统的输出功率。     

Pulsed solid-state laser system with fiber phase conjugation and 315 W average output power

Solid-state laser sources with high average output power and high beam quality are required for numerous applications in industry and science. To improve the beam quality, stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) mirrors based on optical phase conjugation are used to compensate for phase distortions in master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) systems. SBS phase conjugation in commercially available silica optical fibers facilitates the construction of high-power solid-state laser systems with high beam quality. Here we present a flash lamp-pumped, passively Q-switched Nd:YAP system which delivers an average output power of 315 W with M²=2.6 at a wavelength of 1.08 μm. Received: 11 July 2001 / Revised version: 28 September 2001 / Published online: 23 November 2001     

百瓦级全光纤结构单频掺铥主振荡功率放大器

报道了平均功率超过百瓦的单频掺铥全光纤结构主振荡功率放大器。使用线宽小于100kHz、中心波长为1.97μm的单频种子源进行级联放大,主放大器的斜率效率为50%。监测放大器的回光功率和光谱,没有发现受激布里渊散射以及其他非线性效应。通过增加泵浦功率,可以获得更高功率的掺铥单频放大输出。     

二极管面阵侧泵浦Nd:YAG双板条激光器

 叙述了二极管面阵侧泵浦双板条耦合单横模 Q 开关激光器的研制。泵浦源为二极管面阵激光器,使用梯形波导板耦合系统,耦合效率达90%,谐振腔为凸凹腔,全反射镜的曲率半径为 3.0m的凹面镜,输出镜为曲率半径3.0m的可变反射率超高斯镜。激光器在 100Hz 重复频率下,输出单脉冲能量18.23mJ,脉宽为15.25ns,光束质量M²<1.5具有平顶分布的超高斯光束。