受激旋转拉曼散射效应对基频光光束质量的影响

 采用瞬态受激旋转拉曼散射(SRRS)和空间相位扰动模型，定量分析了泵浦光强度和脉冲宽度对基频光在空气长程传输过程中产生的SRRS效应的阈值距离和转换效率的影响，讨论了泵浦光空间相位畸变对长程传输后的基频光光束质量的影响。研究结果表明：SRRS效应的阈值距离随着泵浦光强度和脉宽的增大而变短；空间相位畸变对斯托克斯光和泵浦光的光强分布存在一定影响，对斯托克斯光相位分布的影响比对泵浦光相位的影响大；SRRS效应的存在将导致基频光光束质量明显变差，对谐波转换效率产生明显影响。     

强紫外激光在空气中长程传输受激旋转拉曼散射效应

 采用瞬态受激旋转拉曼散射（SRRS）模型，详细考虑了激光脉冲波形、介质的非线性极化、泵浦光的衰减、斯托克斯光的非线性放大以及拉曼线宽等诸多因素，对强紫外激光束在空气中长程传输过程产生的SRRS效应进行了研究。讨论了产生SRRS效应的阈值条件，详细分析了SRRS效应对激光光束质量的影响。     

受激旋转拉曼散射对强紫外激光相位的影响

 利用瞬态受激旋转拉曼散射（SRRS）模型及相位畸变模型，对具有空间相位畸变的强紫外激光束在空气中长程传输的SRRS效应进行了研究。详细讨论了低频和中高频空间相位畸变对SRRS阈值条件、斯托克斯光转换效率、剩余泵浦光和斯托克斯光相位的影响。研究结果表明，泵浦光的初始相位畸变对斯托克斯光相位畸变的影响较剩余泵浦光的更为明显；高频相位畸变对转换效率影响较低频相位畸变更大； SRRS效应阈值随低频相位畸变的增大而减小，随高频相位畸变的增大而增大。     

真空度对强紫外激光在空气中长程传输的影响

 采用瞬态受激旋转拉曼散射(SRRS)模型，并充分考虑非线性介质分子密度、增益系数、泵浦光的衰减、斯托克斯光的非线性放大以及初始的随机斯托克斯散射场等因素，研究了空气真空度对强紫外激光在空气长程传输过程中产生的SRRS效应的影响。结果表明，真空度对SRRS效应的阈值传输距离和Stokes光的转换效率的影响较大，随着真空度的提高，Stokes光的转换效率将降低，产生SRRS效应的阈值传输距离将增大。因此，在实际工作中，可以采用真空度较高的激光传输环境来抑制SRRS效应的产生，以减小入射泵浦光能量的衰减并提高光束质量。     

受激旋转喇曼散射效应对强紫外激光聚焦特性的影响

采用Maxwell-Bloch-Langevin 方程,建立了强紫外激光在空气传输中的瞬态受激旋转喇曼散射（SRRS）效应模型；利用相位均方根（RMS）梯度描述的随机相位屏表示低频相位畸变,用扰动幅度表征的随机相位屏描述中、高频相位畸变,建立了相位畸变模型.讨论了强紫外激光在空气长程传输中所产生的受激旋转喇曼散射（SRRS）效应对其聚焦光斑形态的变化,定量分析了焦斑半径随入射强紫外激光的空间相位畸变及传输距离的变化.研究结果表明：当传输距离超过阈值条件时,焦斑半径随传输距离的增大而明显增大,且相位畸变越大,焦斑半径也越大.     

发散光长程空气传输受激转动拉曼散射效应

研究强激光长程空气传输受激转动拉曼散射(SRRS)效应,寻求抑制措施是高功率固体激光驱动器建造中需要解决的关键问题之一。采用数值模拟的方法研究了发散光长程空气传输SRRS效应的演化规律,通过几何近似理论推导了该效应有效建立时的强度距离乘积阈值和抑制判据。结果表明:发散光长程空气传输SRRS效应的建立速度小于平行光,二者阈值有理论关系;能够有效抑制SRRS效应的发散角设计判据由光束口径、激光强度及安全传输距离决定。     

截断的有振幅调制和位相畸变光束的等效曲率半径

高功率激光通常具有振幅调制和相位畸变. 采用统计光学方法推导了截断的有振幅调制和位相畸变光束在大气湍流中传输 的等效曲率半径R的解析公式.研究表明:随着位相畸变参量、振幅调制参量和光 束截断参量的增大,光束在自由空间中的 R增大,但R受湍流的影响也会增大; 并且高斯光束在自由空间中的R最大, 但其受湍流影响也最大. 因此,在大气湍流中传输到足够远时, 截断的有振幅调制和位相畸变光束的R就要比高斯光束的大.特别地, 相对等效曲率半径R_r随传输距离为非单调变化, 存在一个最小值, 即在该位置处R受湍流的影响最大. 此外, 达到 R_r最小值所需传输距离随光束位相畸变和振幅调制的加剧而增大.     

强激光长程传输中受激拉曼散射对光束特性的影响

依照受激拉曼散射(SRS)半经典理论从物质激发感应出的三阶非线性极化率X~(3)出发,在强激光长程传输受激拉曼散射中建立了泵浦(传输)激光相位与斯托克斯(Stokes)光强相耦合的理论模型。它清楚地说明了SRS效应影响泵浦激光光束特性,其中包括时间特性及空间特性(光束质量)的物理机制及影响因素。理论分析与实验结果符合得较好。实验还测得了不同转换效率η_s情况下传输后的泵浦光及Stokes光的时间过程特性。结果表明,在小转换效率的条件下,泵浦光时间特性基本不受SRS效应的影响;而当转换效率η_s>5％时,泵浦光脉宽随η_s增大而被逐渐压缩。     

高功率激光传输过程中散射点对光束质量的影响

为了研究高功率激光传输过程中不透明颗粒引起的光束调制,通过分析这些不透明颗粒的形状和分布特点,建立了位置呈随机分布的高斯状散射点模型,从光束的衍射理论和干涉叠加理论出发,得到该模型下散射点对传输光束质量影响的解析式。数值分析了高斯状散射点的大小、密度、散射面积比及其传输距离对输出光束的近场分布、位相分布和光束透过率的影响,结果显示亚毫米量级散射点的衍射效应引起最大调制可达1．4,光学元件散射面积比小于0．003时才能满足元件透过率大于99．5％的需求。该结果可用于评价高功率激光装置光学元件的加工状况,并对光学元件加工要求和激光装置的洁净度要求有指导意义。     

高强度三次谐波转换对光束质量的影响

分别利用光强对比度和功率谱密度作为激光束的振幅调制和位相畸变的定量描述参量,研究了在高功率条件下,三次谐波转换过程对激光光束质量的影响,详细分析了基频光的光束质量与三倍频光光束质量的定量变化关系.     

Investigation of stimulated rotational Raman scattering of the high-power broadband laser with applied angular dispersion

Smoothing by spectral dispersion （SSD） leads to considerable improvement on laser-irradiation uniformity in far field for fusion lasers. Phase modulation in time and spectral angular dispersion （SAD） across the beam introduced by SSD will affect the stimulated rotational Raman scattering （SRRS） gain in the near field. This paper focuses on the influence of SAD on SRRS gain under different laser conditions. Results show that the SAD will aggravate the generation of SRRS when the laser initial additional phase is constant. On the contrary, the SAD can reduce the SRRS gain if appropriate SSD parameters are adopted when the laser initial additional phase is variable. SSD has a certain application prospect in SRRS suppression.     

M~2-factor of high-power laser beams through a multi-apertured ABCD optical system

Based on the generalized truncated second-order moments, an approximate analytical formula of the beam propagation factor M~2 of high-power laser beams passing through the optical system with multiple hard-edged apertures is deduced. Numerical examples of the beams passing through an aperture-spatial filter are enclosed, and the influences of amplitude modulations(AMs) and phase fluctuations(PFs) on the beam propagation quality of high-power laser beams passing through the multi-apertured ABCD optical system are considered and discussed. It is shown that PFs are able to degrade the beam propagation quality of laser beams more than AMs when the high-power laser beams passing through the aperture-spatial filter, furthermore, one or two aperture-lens optical systems configured appropriate aperture parameters are both able to upgrade the beam propagation quality of high-power laser beams. The M~2 factor of Gaussian beam passing through the multi-aperture optical system is a special case in this paper.     

Comparative study on the propagation performance of coherently combined and incoherently combined beams

Taking phase error, turbulent atmosphere, jitter, vacancy factor and tilt error into consideration, we propose a general propagation formula for both coherent and incoherent combined beams with different kinds of aberrations. Comparative study on the propagation performance of coherent and incoherent combined beams is presented. Beam propagation factor (BPF) defined as laser output power in a specified far-field bucket divided by the total output power radiating from the effective near-field exit aperture of the laser beam is introduced as the beam quality factor to give a quantitative study. It is revealed that the coherent combined beam has great advantage when propagating in free-space compared with the incoherent combined beams. However, the coherent combined beam is more sensitive to the environmental aberrations, and the beam quality degrades faster with an increase in the aberrations’ intensity. Scintillation index as the high moments of the combined intensity field is also studied. It is revealed that both coherent and incoherent combined beams exhibit less scintillations compared with a single-aperture beam, and the incoherent combined beam demonstrates better scintillations reducing the performance. Our methodology offers an all-round performance evaluation on the two kinds of laser systems.     

Influence of compressed gas circulation on SRS conversion of ultrashort laser pulses

Comparative studies on SRS conversion of 1 kHz ultrashort laser pulses (0.9–1.2 ps) at 401 and 802 nm in circulated and non-circulated compressed methane and hydrogen were carried out in SRS generation (SRSG) and stimulated Raman amplification (SRA) modes. It was shown that circulation of the gases weakened substantially the thermal lens, which facilitated reaching higher efficiencies of radiation frequency conversion and improved the quality of the obtained beams. This effect was especially pronounced in SRA mode in methane. In this case, the spectrum of the amplified beam practically coincided with that of the seed (beam to be amplified) and the quality of the first Stokes beam was close to the diffraction limit.