飞秒激光脉冲整形技术及其应用

通过频域上控制飞秒激光脉冲幅度、相位和偏振在时域上可以获得几乎任意形状的飞秒激光脉冲,这种飞秒激光脉冲整形技术可为研究光与原子分子非线性相互作用提供一种全新实验技术手段.本文介绍飞秒激光脉冲整形发展历史、技术方法、控制方式及其相关应用,并展望飞秒激光脉冲整形技术未来的发展方向.     

飞秒激光在细胞纳米手术中的应用

激光类型不同,其与生物组织的作用机理也不同。其中飞秒激光由于脉冲持续时间短、瞬时功率大、聚焦尺寸小的特点,使得其在超快、超强和超精细领域有着广阔的应用前景。而结构微小的细胞的动力学研究,如有丝分裂、变形和凋亡,对于了解细胞的生物和发育行为有着重要作用。且生物大分子和水几乎不吸收近红外波长的光,故考虑应用近红外飞秒激光对细胞进行手术。这种激光手术技术已用于对细胞内结构进行切割和蚀除。介绍了该技术在细胞领域中的一些应用,如纳米手术、基因转染和染色体切割等。与传统技术相比,该技术精度高,可在不损伤细胞活性的前提下对细胞进行实验。     

具有几个光振荡周期的飞秒激光脉冲

从麦克斯韦方程组出发 ,推导出了具有几个光振荡周期的飞秒激光脉冲在非线性光纤中传输的方程和非线性光纤的折射率。给出了描述具有几个光振荡周期的飞秒激光脉冲在非线性光纤中传输方程的解。研究了在非线性光纤中自相位调制导致具有几个光振荡周期的飞秒激光脉冲频谱展宽 (脉宽压缩 )的详细物理过程。研究了非线性光纤中飞秒光孤子产生的条件     

飞秒激光诱导材料内部三维光功能微结构新进展

飞秒激光是近年来获得迅速发展的一种超快激光．超短脉冲和超高电场强度是它的两个特征．飞秒激光已广泛用于物理化学反应的动力学过程分析和热效应可忽略的超精细加工．利用飞秒激光与材料的非线性相互作用，还可以实现透明材料内部有空间选择性的三维调控光功能微结构．文章重点介绍了在可擦重写三维超高密度光存储、立体彩色内雕、可集成超快光开关等方面的应用和国内外相关领域的最新进展，并展望了应用前景。     

飞秒激光与透明介质的相互作用

随着飞秒(1fs=1×10-15s)激光技术的不断成熟,飞秒激光器不但在实验室能产生小于10fs的光脉冲,啁啾放大后的飞秒光脉冲的聚焦峰值功率密度可达到1021W/cm2以上,而且飞秒激光系统已实现全固体、小型化结构,其稳定性和可靠性大大提高,因此在科学技术研究中的应用越来越广.文章重点介绍飞秒激光的主要特性和它与透明介质[如熔融石英、光学玻璃、对激光透明的高分子聚合物(PMMA)等]的相互作用过程,分析它们之间的非线性相互作用过程引起的材料特性或结构变化的物理机制和可能的应用,尤其在高密度大容量三维存储和微光子器件制造等方面的应用可能性.     

利用棱镜减小自衍射信号光角色散的研究

自衍射效应在飞秒激光领域有非常重要的应用,如提高飞秒脉冲的时域对比度、作为自参考光谱干涉脉冲测量法的参考光、作为频率分辨光学开关法的信号光等.然而,具有较宽光谱带宽的飞秒激光在自衍射效应过程中产生的信号光存在明显的角色散,这给自衍射效应的应用带来不利影响.本文研究发现通过在自衍射效应的一个光路中加入等腰直角棱镜,当到棱镜的入射角为23fi时可以明显地减小飞秒激光脉冲自衍射信号的角色散.这就为以后将自衍射效应更好的应用到飞秒激光脉冲的研究提供了有用的参考.     

钛蓝宝石飞秒超快光谱技术及其应用进展

介绍飞秒激光技术的进展、钛宝石飞秒激光放大技术及飞秒分辨相关测量技术.并介绍了飞秒分辨光荧光上转换和光克尔实验技术及其在各种学科中的应用. 关键词： 飞秒激光 飞秒光谱 光克尔 光荧光     

飞秒激光作用下全向高反膜破坏的激发过程

设计和制备了全向高反膜SiO₂/TiO₂，研究了它在不同脉冲宽度、不同脉冲能量的飞秒激光作用下的破坏阈值和烧蚀深度.利用发展的抽运-探针方法，研究了抽运脉冲作用下材料中导带电子的超快激发和能量沉积过程，建立并求解了飞秒激光激发材料和材料的激发对抽运光自身反作用的耦合动力学模型.模型较好地揭示了材料破坏的激发过程. 关键词： 飞秒激光 全向高反膜 激发过程 破坏机制     

Co膜中多次超快瞬态反射突变现象研究

飞秒激光泵浦瞬态热反射技术是研究金属薄膜超快动力学的有效手段,这种技术具有两大突出特点：首先,可以揭示飞秒激光激发的微观电、声子的传输过程是一个非平衡热输运过程。其次,反射率瞬态变化实验中电子运动的超短时间分辨可以用来研究热过程中电子的非平衡相互作用情况。利用磁控溅射真空镀膜技术,在玻璃衬底和硅衬底上蒸镀了不同厚度的Co单层膜,Cr,Co双层膜以及Ag,Co双层膜。利用飞秒激光瞬态反射技术研究了Co膜及其双层膜的瞬态反射率响应。结果表明,在同一厚度的Co膜样品上,施加不同的泵浦光功率时,Co膜内电子的加热时间与泵浦光功率的大小无关,均为0.1344 ps。而对于不同厚度的Co膜,电子的热化时间与薄膜厚度直接相关。此外,发现与以往研究结果不同的是,在泵浦光功率足够大时,玻璃衬底上的Co膜在飞秒激光脉冲泵浦下会出现两次或三次瞬态反射率下降现象,Co膜厚度决定了Co膜内瞬态反射率突变的次数,即Co膜内电子的超快动力学变化次数。     

飞秒激光制备特殊浸润性功能表面研究进展(特邀)

具有特殊浸润性的功能表面在生产生活中发挥着重要作用。同时,飞秒激光加工以其独特的优势,成为制备特殊浸润性功能表面的重要方式。本文通过自然界中生物表面微结构与实际应用的联系,讨论了飞秒激光制备多种微结构的方法,从"双面神"表面、智能响应超疏表面以及润滑表面等三个方面对基于飞秒激光制备特殊浸润性功能表面进行了总结。对飞秒激光在特殊浸润性功能表面制备的研究成果进行总结归纳,为未来飞秒激光在浸润性表面的研究、应用和发展提供参考。     

飞秒激光氘团簇聚变

简要介绍了原子团簇的产生方法和特点以及激光惯性约束核聚变的基本原理,氚团簇在飞秒激光的作用下,大量吸收激光能量,产生了高离化态高能离子,从而实现了氚团簇桌面台式聚变。     

基于多通单元的高能量耗散孤子锁模光纤振荡器

为了在有限抽运功率条件下探索基于大模场面积光 子晶体光纤的耗散孤子锁模振荡器的能量提升潜力, 本文利用多通单元将基于掺镱大模场面积光子晶体光纤锁模振荡器的腔长延展, 消除了有限抽运功率的限制, 使得该系统能够在较低平均功率水平下获得更高的单脉冲能量. 实验上构建了重复频率低至15.58 MHz的高能量光子晶体光纤锁模脉冲振荡器, 并通过分别使用6 nm带宽和12 nm带宽的两种不同带宽的光谱滤光片, 能够直接输出平均功率分别为3.73 W和4.9 W的啁啾脉冲, 对应单脉冲能量分别为239 nJ和314 nJ. 经过光栅对去啁啾后, 最窄脉冲宽度分别为56 fs和75 fs, 对应峰值功率均超过3 MW. 关键词： 多通单元 耗散孤子 飞秒 光纤激光器     

Probing nonequilibrium dynamics with white-light femtosecond pulses

Femtosecond pulsed lasers have become an invaluable tool for examining ultrafast nonequilibrium dynamics. With pulsewidths of a few hundred femtoseconds (fs) to less than 10 fs, these lasers can clearly provide unprecedented temporal resolution. By amplifying ultrashort laser pulses to sufficient levels of energy per pulse, it is possible to exploit the nonlinear optical properties of certain materials to generate extremely broadband pulses. These pulses retain the time structure of the incident pulse, but contain a spectral bandwidth extending from the infrared to as far as the ultraviolet. By generating white-light pulses, it becomes possible to probe ultrafast nonlinear processes over a large range of energies. In this paper, the process of generating white-light ultrashort pulses will be presented, along with a discussion of different probing techniques and procedures necessary for modeling the transient optical data. Finally, results from pump-probe measurements using a white-light probe on indium phosphide (InP) films will be presented as a demonstration of this technique.     

Tracking of transplanted mesenchymal stem cells labeled with fluorescent magnetic nanoparticle in liver cirrhosis rat model with 3-T MRI

In vivo visualization of transplanted stem cells with noninvasive technique is essential for the monitoring of cell implantation, homing and differentiation. At present, superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) is most commonly used for cell labeling. However, stem cells lack phagocytic capacity and transfection agent is required for sufficient internalization of SPIO for cellular imaging. However, the potential hazards of transfection agents are not fully investigated. Instead of SPIO, we used commercially available new tagging material, fluorescent magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) containing rhodamine B isothiocyanate within a silica shell (Biterials, Seoul, Korea). This tagging material does not require transfection agents for the cell labeling. In addition to that, the core of this MNP is composed of ferrite and the inner portion of silica shell contains fluorescent materials, therefore, it has both magnetic and optical features. This study was designed to track intrasplenically injected bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) labeled with fluorescent MNP in liver cirrhosis rat model with 3-T magnetic resonance equipment. We compared magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of livers in rats which were injected with non-labeled stem cells or labeled stem cells with MNP or SPIO. We found that the respective liver-to-muscle contrast-to-noise ratios at 3 and 5 h after MNP or SPIO-labeled stem cell injection was significantly lower than that of pre-injection and non-labeled group. There was no significant difference between MNP-labeled group and SPIO-labeled group. We can effectively detect intrasplenically injected MNP-labeled MSCs in an experimental rat model of liver cirrhosis with 3-T MRI.     

Femtosecond pulse parametric amplification at narrowband high power gas laser pumping

In ultrashort pulse amplification a narrowband gas pump pulse laser has been used for the first time. An all-stage optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) was driven by a single-shot iodine photodissociation laser. For the first time a broadband amplification was achieved in potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystal at 800 nm seeding. Ti:sapphire laser pulses stretched from 12.5 fs to 250 ps were amplified and compressed to 27 fs at a 0.5 TW output power. The results suggest using narrowband high power gas lasers as OPCPA drivers to generate petawatt beams.     

Studies of advanced soft X-ray laser and coherent higher harmonic generation using intense subpicosecond laser produced high density plasma

Current activities on our research of soft X-ray lasers and higher harmonic generations using intense, subpicosecond lasers are reviewed. Especially for soft X-ray lasers we experimentally demonstrate that by longitudinally pumping 2-mm-long molybdenum preformed plasma with high-intensity 475 fs duration laser pulse, a highly directive soft-X-ray laser at 18.9 nm wavelength is generated. The divergence of the beam is evaluated to be of the submilliradian order, and only requires pump laser energy of 150 mJ. Simulations show that the pedestal in the main pump pulse can generate electron density and gain profiles with large spatial gradients, which result in the selective amplification of low-order transverse modes. The present result is the demonstration of an efficient and alternative method of improving the spatial coherence of X-ray lasers with amplified spontaneous emission medium, with possibilities of becoming an excellent tool to explore various application experiments. In higher harmonic generation, topics related to observation of blue shift due to collisionless absorption process is described.     

Application of femtosecond‐pulsed lasers for direct optical manipulation of biological functions

Absorption of photon energy by cells or tissue can evoke photothermal, photomechanical, and photochemical effects, depending on the density of the deposited energy. Photochemical effects require a low energy density and can be used for reversible modulation of biological functions. Ultrashort‐pulsed lasers have a high intensity due to the short pulse duration, despite its low average energy. Through nonlinear absorption, these lasers can deliver very high peak energy into the submicrometer focus area without causing collateral damage. Absorbed energy delivered by ultrashort‐pulsed laser irradiation induces free electrons, which can be readily converted to reactive oxygen species (ROS) and related free radicals in the localized region. Free radicals are best known to induce irreversible biological effects via oxidative modification; however, they have also been proposed to modulate biological functions by releasing calcium ions from intracellular organelles. Calcium can evoke variable biological effects in both excitable and nonexcitable cell types. Controlled stimulation by ultrashort laser pulses generate intracellular calcium waves that can modulate many biological functions, such as cardiomyocyte beat rate, muscle contractility, and blood–brain barrier (BBB) permeability. This article presents optical methods that are useful therapeutic and research tools in the biomedical field and discuss the possible mechanisms responsible for biological modulation by ultrashort‐pulsed lasers, especially femtosecond‐pulsed lasers.     

A compact warm ring for industrial applications

The ultrafast, high brightness X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) sources of the future have the potential to revolutionize the study of time-dependent phenomena in the natural sciences. These linear accelerator (linac) sources will generate femtosecond (fs) X-ray pulses with peak flux comparable to conventional lasers, and far exceeding all other X-ray sources. The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has pioneered the development of linac science and technology for decades, and since 2000 SLAC and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) have focused on the development of linac based ultrafast electron and X-ray sources.