37单元双压电片变形镜板条激光光束净化

为了校正板条激光器输出光束波前像差,改善输出光束质量,提出了基于37单元双压电片变形镜的板条激光光束净化系统。采用柱面反射式单向扩束器使主振荡功率放大结构板条激光器输出光束尺寸与37单元双压电片变形镜有效口径相匹配,利用随机并行梯度下降算法控制双压电片变形镜面形,进行波前像差闭环校正,校正后光束远场归一化桶中功率提高到净化前的2~3倍。     

非均匀光斑导致相变镜镜面偏转的研究

 针对高功率激光器中非均匀光斑热致变形导致光轴偏转的问题，提出用相变致冷镜作为腔镜来减小镜面变形峰谷值和角向偏转，在2kW连续二氧化碳激光器上进行了热变形和光束漂移实验。实验表明，与普通实心硅镜相比，相变致冷镜镜面温度分布更均匀，可有效地减小镜面偏转角和光斑中心漂移，提高远场光束质量。     

后腔镜对掺镱双包层光纤激光器输出特性影响研究

使用国产掺镱双包层光纤搭建了双包层激光器实验系统.将透射率不同的反射镜作为后腔镜进行了激光器输出激光光谱和功率测量.根据激光器数学模型和增益理论,分析了实验中后腔镜参量对激光器输出特性的影响,并深入讨论了后腔镜透射率与激光器输出波长之间的关系.实验表明：后腔镜与激光器输出激光功率和波长紧密联系,通过调节后腔镜的透射率可以优化系统的输出激光特性.     

角锥阵列改善固体热容激光器光束质量

 为改善光束远场质量,探索研究了角锥反射器的应用,利用角锥棱镜的准相位共轭特性,将角锥棱镜阵列作为热容激光器的后腔镜,抑制腔内波前畸变,并通过数值模拟计算对角锥阵列的单元边长进行优化设计。实验结果表明:角锥阵列对光束远场质量有明显的改善,当角锥阵列的单元边长为4 mm时,实现光束远场7倍衍射极限输出。     

角隅全反镜谐振腔激光器的输出特性

 在高功率脉冲气体激光器中，用角隅反射镜作为全反镜，平行平面镜作为输出镜构成角隅全反镜谐振腔。对角隅腔激光器的输出特性和抗失调稳定性进行了研究，并与平凹腔和平平腔激光器进行了比较。实验结果表明：在角隅全反镜失调角为16 mrad时，角隅腔激光器的单脉冲输出能量下降9.2%，且近场输出光斑没有明显变化；而凹面全反镜失调角仅为0.4 mrad时，平凹腔激光器输出能量下降了9%，近场输出光斑严重变形。在输出镜正前方3.12 m处测量，当角隅镜偏转16.3 mrad时，激光器输出光斑与标准状态时的输出光斑重合；凹面全反镜失调角为0.4 mrad时，激光器输出光斑位移14 mm。经模式仪分析表明，角隅腔激光器近场光强分布均匀。     

20单元双压电片变形镜对Zernike像差空间拟合能力的实验研究

利用20单元双压电片变形镜和13×13阵列哈特曼波前传感器所构成的闭环自适应光学系统,实验测试了双压电片变形镜对3～20项静态Zernike像差的空间校正能力,并将实验结果与仿真计算结果进行了对比.最后分析了哈特曼传感器与双压电片变形镜之间的对准误差对实验结果的影响.研究表明,除了少数几项外,双压电片变形镜对3～20项Zernike像差的拟合误差都小于0.5,各项Zernike仿真和实验结果之差平均小于0.1.计算表明,与严格对准的理想情况相比,双压电片变形镜对3～20项Zernike像差中大多数项的拟合误差都随着失配程度的增加而增大,对准精度对于高阶像差拟合效果的影响尤其严重.     

两路关联光纤激光器互注入锁相实验

基于角锥互注入锁相相干合成方案,利用光纤Bragg光栅（R=85％@1064nm）作为两路光纤激光器的共用腔镜,实现了两路光纤激光器相关联,进一步提高了激光的互注入能量。采用外腔结构,较容易实现了两路光纤激光器的能量互注入锁相。在实验上观察到了远场清晰稳定的干涉条纹（可见度超过0．8）,获得了功率合成效率约为80％的线偏振相干激光输出。     

大功率TEA CO2激光器非稳腔的设计与实验

相比于传统稳腔高功率TEA CO2激光器,如何在不降低功率的基础上,改善其光束质量一直研究者关心的问题。本文在原有稳腔激光器的基础上,设计了三组望远镜虚共焦腔镜,给出了完整的设计过程并进行了理论分析。同时对不同组的非稳腔激光器进行了对比实验研究,结果表明非稳腔能够在保证高单脉冲能量的基础上极大地改善激光远场发散角,其中最佳腔镜组合能够达到单脉冲能量13.7J,其发散角为1mrad（稳腔为2.4mrad）,激光脉宽50ns（稳腔为98ns）。这就为此种类型激光器应用于激光制造领域奠定了基础。     

组合变形镜对板条固体MOPA激光波前畸变校正（英）

提出了一种利用组合变形镜校正板条MOPA固体激光器像差的方法,并通过实验验证其有效性。通过将一个11单元的一维变形镜和一个67单元的二维变形镜组合,有效降低了单个二维变形镜波前校正过程中驱动器间的电压差,从而提高了二维变形镜的使用安全性,并在一定程度上改善了校正后波前畸变的空间分布,降低了波前畸变残差。实验结果表明,一维变形镜与二维变形镜的组合能高效地校正板条MOPA固体激光器的波前畸变,波前残差均方根值小于0.08 m,远场光束质量因子可达1.67。     

体布拉格光栅外腔红光半导体激光器实验研究

采用反射型体布拉格光栅作为反馈元件构成红光外腔半导体激光器,对器件输出光特性进行了实验研究。重点研究了体布拉格光栅的位置对红光外腔半导体激光器远场特性的影响。实验结果表明,减小体布拉格光栅与激光器芯片之间的距离可提高激光器的锁模效果,窄化光谱,并且改善慢轴方向的光束发散角。使用衍射效率为20%的体布拉格光栅,可将半导体激光器的输出波长稳定锁定在634 nm附近,光谱线宽压缩至0.7 nm左右,输出功率可达1.06 W。     

Liquid-cooled ceramic Nd:YAG split-disk amplifier for high-average-power laser

A liquid-cooled ceramic Nd:YAG split-disk laser amplifier has been designed for a high-average-power laser system. The maximum average output power of 17.1 W (1.71 J at 10 Hz) and the beam size of far-field pattern with 1.5 times diffraction limit was obtained. The combination of liquid cooling for disk laser material and wavefront compensation with a phase conjugation mirror was demonstrated. The wavefront degradation by liquid cooling was observed and measured with Michelson interferometer and far-field patterns.     

射频激励相移阵列谐振腔波导CO2激光器输出特性研究

为保持器件结构紧凑型的同时获得稳定的高功率、高光束质量激光输出,将相移光学阵列谐振腔技术用于射频激励扩散型冷却板条波导CO₂激光器．实验发现,该设计方案虽然波导结构为矩形宽波导,但是由于采用了具有相移阵列结构的全反射镜,获得的激光束输出空间分布具有阵列输出光束的基本特征．在波导截面为1mm×20mm、增益介质长度为20cm的波导结构条件下,获得了46W的激光功率输出和11.3%的电光转换效率．激光束输出的远场空间分布呈空间压缩的极锐单峰．由于该结构具有的选模特性,远场为单峰空间分布特 关键词：     

射频激励相移阵列谐振腔波导CO2 激光器输出特性研究

In this paper, an optical array resonator with phase-shifting end mirror has been combined with the RF-excited diffusively cooled slab waveguide CO₂ lasers to obtain a desirable output laser beam with single-peaked far-field intensity distribution, which is highly spatially suppressed with the merits of high brightness and good characteristics of propagation. In the experiments, a maximum output power of 46 W and highest conversion efficiency of 11.3% have been obtained from a 200-mm-gain-length device. The laser beam intensity distribution acquired has similar characteristics to the ouptut beam from laser arrays due to the periodical structure of the phase-shifting total reflector, and has an excellent stability due to the mode-selection capability of this type of resonator. In this paper, theoretical analysis is also given, based on which corresponding theoretical model is established, the practical feasibility is shown, and the laser beam output with characteristics of in-phase array mode is predicted. The systematical experimental investigation indicates the prominent influence of the parameters of the phase-shifting array end mirror on the property of the output beam. Furthermore, the manufacturing errors of the phase-shifted array resonator are analyzed and the analysis provides a theoretical guide to the design of this type of lasers.     

Output beam analysis of high power COIL

As the output power of a chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) increases, the output laser beam instability appears as the far-field beam spot drift and deformation for the large Presnel number unstable resonator. In order to interpret this phenomenon, an output beam mode simulation code was developed with the fast Fourier transform method. The calculation results show that the presence of the nonuniform gain in COIL produces a skewed output intensity distribution, which causes the mirror tilt and bulge due to the thermal expansion. With the output power of COIL increases, the mirror surfaces, especially the back surface of the scraper mirror, absorb more and more heat, which causes the drift and deformation of far field beam spot seriously. The initial misalignment direction is an important factor for the far field beam spot drifting and deformation.     

Study on the possibilities of controlling the laser output beam properties by an intracavity deformable mirror

The possibilities of controlling the laser beam properties by a deformable mirror introduced into the laser optical cavity were studied theoretically and experimentally. The experiments were performed under conditions of an industrial high power transverse flow cw CO₂ laser operating with a stable resonator of a folded configuration. A deformable bimorph mirror of a surface profile controlled by the voltage applied to the mirror electrodes is implemented to the laser system as a back cavity mirror or as a one of the inner folding mirrors. The near-and far-field characteristics of the laser beam versus the resonator configuration controlled by the changes of the focal length of the deformable mirror are discussed in the paper. The analysis reveals that the resonator with an inner deformable mirror is much more sensitive to the mirror curvature variations than the resonator in which the deformable mirror is used as a back cavity mirror. The presented results show that dynamic and controllable changes in the resonator properties result in the controlled modification and optimisation of the laser output power and spatial parameters of the laser radiation.     

A wavefront sensor-less adaptive optical system for a solid-state laser

A wavefront sensor-less adaptive optical system has been set up. It consists of a deformable mirror, a high-voltage amplifier, a set of solid-state laser system, a CCD camera, control software and a genetic algorithm. This adaptive optical system does not employ a wavefront sensor to detect the wavefront information, but optimizes the light intensity within a fixed aperture in the focal plane by a 19-element piezoelectricity deformable mirror. A genetic algorithm is introduced to search the optimum surface profile of the deformable mirror for correcting the phase aberrations in a solid-state laser system. The far-field light intensity signal, which is measured by a CCD, is taken as the fitness function of the genetic algorithm. In this paper, the performance and the efficiency of this wavefront sensor-less adaptive optical system are presented. Both simulative results and experimental results are given and discussed.     

The Characteristics of Wavefront and Far-Field Optical Pattern from High Power Laser Mirror

This paper presents the characteristics of wavefront and far-field optical pattern from high power laser mirror which suffered from thermal deformations. Zernike polynomials are introduced to describe aberrations of laser-induced thermal deformations. And, the far-field optical patterns of radiation are calculated by using Fourier transformation and measured by interference experiments. The result indicates that main aberrations are defocusing and primary coma, and that the tilt cannot be ignored. Some optical patterns and contour maps which depend on the laser beam power applied to the mirror and the exposure time are given. Finally a new clamping method is suggested, which can reduce the tilt of mirror and increase the pointing stability of high power laser beam.     

Fast and stable enhancement of the far-field peak power by use of an intracavity deformable mirror

We demonstrate that an intracavity deformable mirror (DM) is capable of compensating for the aberrations of a continuous-wave (CW) Nd:YAG solid-state laser and improving its far-field peak power fast and stably. The deformable mirror is controlled by a stochastic parallel gradient descend (SPGD) algorithm. Experimental results reveal that high-order-like transverse modes can be transformed into Gaussian-like modes quickly without any pinhole added in the laser cavity. At the same time, the far-field peak powers are also increased to different extents.     

卫星激光通信均匀信标光的研究

采用信标光是完成卫星激光通信捕获过程的一种重要手段,信标光的远场分布对捕捉概率和捕获时间有较大的影响。为满足通信系统的性能要求,对信标的远场分布提出一定的要求是必要的。首先从理论计算的角度,分析了远场高斯分布信标光对卫星激光通信捕获过程的影响,认为在存在光束抖动的情况下,均匀信标光在捕获阶段具有明显的优势。基于多激光器合束技术,利用半导体激光器设计了一个能实现远场均匀分布的信标光模块。给出了模块结构,分析了均匀信标光产生的机理,并从理论上推导了该模块的远场光强分布表达式。实验表明,所研制的均匀信标光模块可出射功率超过3.8 W,不均匀度小于11%的远场均匀信标光,通光效率为54%,从而证明了所设计的信标光模块的可行性。     

Phase perturbation investigation of laser diode for the laser diode to single-mode fiber coupling system

A novel phase-perturbation method as well as an experimental system were established to study the deviation of the laser diode (LD) far-field intensity distribution from the ideal Gaussian. An analytical expression of the LD far-field intensity distribution and a numerical method based on the Monte Carlo calculation were developed to fit the measured results. The loss of the LD to the single-mode fiber (SMF) coupling system caused by this kind of deviation of the LD far-field intensity distribution was quantitatively analyzed.