用于冷原子制备的激光扩束准直器的研制

针对现有的冷原子实验用的多数保偏光纤输入型扩束准直器不能对输入激光束的偏振进行精确调节的缺陷,提出了一种全长度为135mm,输出圆形光斑有效直径为20mm的紧凑型偏振可调激光扩束准直器.该扩束准直器中的偏振棱镜和波片偏振轴均可独立调节,能对单模保偏光纤输入光束的偏振态进行精确调节和保持.所研制的激光扩束准直器在三维磁光阱冷原子实验中制备出了满足冷原子干涉实验要求的冷原子团,冷原子团原子数为5×108,温度约为10μK,并获得了最大上抛高度为1.156m的原子喷泉飞行时间信号.     

新型非成像激光光束变换器的设计

设计了一种新型锥形激光光束变换器，它根据全内反射一折射原理扩大或压缩入射激光束的直径。利用光线追迹的方法研究了传输光线的传输规律和特性，并进行了相应的计算机模拟。设计的变换器可以将沿中心轴入射的单色平行光束压缩成平行于中心轴的光束、会聚在中心轴的光束或空心光束。对于入射的非平行光，它的特性同传统的成像扩柬器相似，所不同的是拉格朗日不变量不再是常量，当压缩光束的直径时拉格朗日不变量略有减小，当扩大光束的直径时拉格朗日不变量略有增大。设计的变换器具有结构简单、价格便宜和倍率高等优点。     

复合式无遮拦激光扩束器的设计

为满足大功率激光发射的要求,提出研制一种基于卡塞格林系统的大口径激光发射的复合式无遮拦激光扩束器,消除卡塞格林系统中心遮拦,提高激光发射效率。依据卡塞格林系统原理及其结构特征,结合伽利略折射式扩束器的特点,设计一种发射口径为550 mm的复合式无遮拦激光扩束器,采用反射式扩束器和折射式扩束器结合的方式,在卡塞格林次镜中心开通孔,使中心被遮拦激光透过。后接伽利略式折射扩束器,对中心透过光束进行扩束,两光束共轴发射。对设计的新型复合扩束器进行激光透过率实验,实验结果表明,对于波长10.6μm激光,透过率大于95.21%,比传统卡塞格林扩束器提高22.12%。     

光束质量测量的最小束斑法

基于最小束斑条件,提出一种光束质量的测试方法。用这种测试方法,在沿光轴的二个位置进行束宽测量,就可较正确给出束腰位置、束腰宽度、远场发散角和M~2因子。     

光纤非相干合成光束在湍流大气中的传输实验研究

进行了六路100 W量级光纤非相干合成光束在实际大气湍流中的传输实验,将六路光斑直径为9 mm的单模光纤光束分别扩束,扩束后的光斑直径为90 mm。基于倾斜镜的合束系统来控制各路光束的指向,在不同强度的湍流条件中,通过主镜口径为440 mm的发射系统水平聚焦传输至470 m处。倾斜控制系统闭环工作时,一倍衍射极限内的桶中功率占目标处总功率的比值是开环工作时的1.7倍左右,随着大气湍流的强度变弱,此比值变大。     

Numerical simulation of super-continuum laser propagation in turbulent atmosphere

Considering the atmospheric extinction and turbulence effects,we investigate the propagation performances of supercontinuum laser sources in atmospheric turbulence statistically by using the numerical simulation method,and the differences in propagation properties between the super-continuum(SC)laser and its pump laser are also analyzed.It is found that the propagation characteristics of super-continuum laser are almost similar to those of the pump laser.The degradation of source coherence degree may cause the relative beam spreading and scintillation indexes to decrease at different propagation distances or different turbulence strengths.The root-mean-square value of beam wandering is insensitive to the variation of source correlation length,and less aperture averaging occurs when the laser source becomes less coherent.Additionally,from the point of view of beam wandering,the SC laser has no advantage over the pump laser.Although the pump laser can bring about a bigger aperture average,the SC laser has a lower scintillation which may be due to the multiple wavelength homogenization effects on intensity fluctuations.This would be the most important virtue of the SC laser that can be utilized to improve the performance of laser engineering.     

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。     

Effect of beam diameter on the propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses

This paper describes the effects observed during the propagation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in air following the modification of the laser beam diameter with a pair of convex–concave lenses placed/mounted in a telescopic configuration. We observed that by reducing the diameter of the beam the detected back-scattered nitrogen fluorescence from the filaments becomes more stable on a shot-to-shot basis while, for a larger beam size, greater fluctuations are observed that are not correlated to shot-to-shot fluctuations in the laser pulse energy. This result leads to a new method to control the fluorescence signal which can be very important in remote-sensing applications. PACS 42.65.Jx; 42.68.Ay; 42.68.Wt     

反射式激光扩束器的切换变倍技术

反射式扩束常用于大功率的激光发射装置,但在离轴状态下,仅仅控制多组镜片之间的相对距离并不能像透射式扩束一样顺利实现变倍。从扩束望远镜系统的失调状态得到启发,提出一种两片次镜切换变倍的光学方案,针对一束CO2激光器发出的直径为54mm的激光束,完成了离轴工作时1.5倍和3.0倍两个档位的扩束光学设计。仿真结果证明了扩束功能的正确性,而且与主次镜相同曲率半径下同轴使用的失调望远镜系统的调制传递函数(MTF)曲线基本吻合,对离焦量进行补偿之后的成像效果能够达到衍射极限。     

An alternative approach to determine the spot-size of a multi-mode laser beam and its application to diode laser beams

An alternative approach is suggested to determine the spot-size of a multi-mode laser beam. It has been shown by simulations that the suggested approach can give the beam quality factor and characteristic radius with less than 5% error. Unlike the power content method, the proposed method is applicable to the beams even with diameter one tenth of the CCD size. The new approach has been applied to a multi-mode diode laser output and it is shown that the ABCD matrix analysis can be used for beam propagation, with the measured parameters of the laser.     

Thermal affected zone obtained in machining steel XC42 by high-power continuous CO2 laser

A high-power continuous CO₂ laser (4 kW) can provide energy capable of causing melting or even, with a special treatment of the surface, vaporization of an XC42-steel sample. The laser–metal interaction causes an energetic machining mechanism, which takes place according to the assumption that the melting front precedes the laser beam, such that the laser beam interacts with a preheated surface whose temperature is near the melting point. The proposed model, obtained from the energy balance during the interaction time, concerns the case of machining with an inert gas jet and permits the calculation of the characteristic parameters of the groove according to the characteristic laser parameters (absorbed laser energy and impact diameter of the laser beam) and allows the estimation of the quantity of the energy causing the thermal affected zone (TAZ). This energy is equivalent to the heat quantity that must be injected in the heat propagation equation. In the case of a semi-infinite medium with fusion temperature at the surface, the resolution of the heat propagation equation gives access to the width of the TAZ.     

Variable shape or variable diameter flattop beam tailored by using an adaptive weight FFT-based iterative algorithm and a phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator

The variable shape or variable diameter flattop beam shaping technique by using an adaptive weight FFT-based iterative algorithm (AWFFT-IA) and a phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator (PO-LCSLM) is demonstrated. The algorithm is used to design the phase distribution for tailoring central symmetric laser beam into the desired shape or diameter flattop beam, the PO-LCSLM serves as dynamically programmable phase filters, which depend on the designed phase distributions, to retard the incident wavefront as we would expect. The experimental results show that the technique can realize variable shape or variable diameter flattop beam shaping.     

Beam expanders for pulsed dye lasers. Comparative study of their performances

We show the results of a comparative study of the experimental performances of three representative beam expander prototypes. A practical method for designing a prism beam expander is described. Not only laser output characteristics, but also reliability and costs are discussed. The results are summarized in a table.     

飞行光学导光系统中的空气热透镜效应

研究了激光加工用大功率ＣＯ２激光束在飞行光学导光系统中传输所产生的空气热透镜效应。实验发现当飞行光学导光系统中的空气静止时将产生空气热透镜效应,而充以一定压力的压缩空气却可以消除空气热透镜效应,实验表明无热透镜效应时,光束遵循高斯光束传输规律,而秀热透镜效应时,光束偏离高斯光束的传输规律,并影响到激光束聚焦焦点的大小和位置。另外通过激光空气热透镜效应的非线性模型计算了热透镜效应所引起的光束传输相对     

采用APD阵列的共口径激光成像光学系统设计

针对机载平台激光3D成像系统的轻小型需求,设计了采用APD阵列的共口径激光收发光学系统。在分析激光成像系统照明方式及其光学系统结构的基础上,给出了激光3D成像光学系统结构框图:激光经衍射元件实现分束照明,采用双工反射镜实现收发光路的耦合。该光学系统用于2 km以内的目标三维成像,根据激光测距方程,确定了接收光学系统的参数以获得满足信噪比的回波能量。为避免造成像素之间串扰,设计了5倍扩束比的发射光学系统。最后,采用偏振片与1/4波片相结合的方式消除杂光,降低了发射光路对接收光路的影响。设计结果表明:接收光学系统弥散斑直径小于120μm,畸变小于0.2%。该光学系统体积小、重量轻,成像质量良好,可为同类激光成像光学系统提供借鉴参考。     

横向可分原子激光的传输

本文在含时量子系统传播子的ABCD形式理论的基础上．进一步讨论原子激光这种品质因子不守恒系统的传输。利用准连续的原子激光在传输过程中所满足薛定谔方程．并引入某一方向的束宽、发散角、曲率半径和品质因子等光束传输参量来表征横向势能满足x和y分量相互独立的原子激光的传输。如果某一方向上品质因子也守恒,就可以通过解析不同过程品质因子守恒的充要方程,找到原子激光在各过程中ABCD形式的传播子。本文讨论原子激光在从玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)中穿出过程。在磁化捕获器打开情况下的传输,以及在自由空间的传输这三个满足横向势能可分且各横向品质因子守恒条件的过程中ABCD形式的传播子。本文还将所运用的方法和所得结果与Yann等人的方法和结果进行了比较。     

A prism anamorphic system for Gaussian beam expander

Basic properties are given of the prism anamorphic expander of a Gaussian beam composed of a couple of prisms in tandem. Its shorter overall length for a given expansion, relative ease of optical adjustment, a sharp selection of polarization component, and rather small inclusive dispersion make it an excellent beam expander in a specific laser cavity. The design principle is presented of the prism system with a grating for an anastigmatic optical resonator for a dye laser of narrow linewidth and of short pulse duration.     

大视场反射式激光扩束系统光学设计

激光扫描捕获系统通过对激光光源进行扩束变换,压缩光源的发散角度,可减少在远距离传输中的能量损失。为满足某通信实验需要,设计一种放大倍率为10倍,光源扫描视场为4840的小型扩束系统。系统要求在1 550 nm、1 064 nm、800 nm和632.8 nm激光波段,全视场范围内波像差RMS不大于0.1（=632.8 nm）,且无中心遮拦。通过计算初始结构参数,利用Zemax软件优化,采用4片反射式非球面进行设计,全系统体积约为9010060 mm3,波像差最大为0.095,满足系统尺寸和像质要求,整个系统光能透过率约为92%,满足透过率大于85%的设计要求。     

Light propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals illuminated by a tightly focused laser beam

By using a tightly focused laser beam, we have studied light propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals consisting of closed-packed hexagonal arrays of polystyrene particles with diameter of 1∼5 μm. The light propagation is found to depend strongly on the focal point positioning, the incident beam polarization and the interaction between particles and glass substrates.     

Analysis of measurement error of wind lidar caused by propagation properties of Gaussian beam

The Fabry–Perot Etalon (FPE) is widely used in Doppler wind lidar as frequency discriminator and its performance is certainly affected by the propagation properties of Gaussian beam. The divergence angle of lidar returns affected by the quality factor M² and magnification of beam expander (MBE) of outgoing laser is firstly discussed. Also, the corresponding sensitivity of system on wind velocity is analyzed. The numerical results show that the divergence angle of lidar returns and FPE transmission varied with height, the resulting sensitivity of system is decreased and the wind velocity error is relatively steady in the far field. Consequently, for the wind lidar using FPE as frequency discriminator, it is supposed that the outgoing laser with both lower beam quality factor M² and higher MBE are requested, in particularly, the system calibration due to FPE instability must be considered in the near field.