神光Ⅱ激光装置的全口径背向散射测量系统

报道了基于神光Ⅱ激光装置的全口径背向散射测量系统。系统通过激光聚焦透镜收集激光等离子体相互作用产生的散射光;两个热能量卡计分别测量波长348~354 nm范围的受激布里渊散射和波长400~700 nm范围的受激拉曼散射产生的散射光。该系统可以测量散射光的能量、功率和光谱图像,提供优于0.5 nm光谱分辨和10 ps时间分辨的光谱物理信息。同时采用PIN二极管阵列对聚焦透镜外侧附近的近背向散射光信息进行测量。     

水中受激拉曼散射的能量增强及受激布里渊散射的光学抑制

为提高液体介质中受激拉曼散射的输出能量,提出了通过温度调控来抑制受激布里渊散射的方法,设计了532 nm多纵模宽带脉冲激光泵浦的受激拉曼散射发生系统,测量了不同温度下水中前向受激拉曼散射及后向受激布里渊散射的输出能量,分析了水温、泵浦激光线宽及热散焦效应对受激拉曼散射输出能量影响的物理机制.实验结果表明:通过降低水温可实现对受激布里渊散射过程的有效抑制,同时减小热散焦效应带来的光束畸变,从而有效提高受激拉曼散射的输出能量.研究结果对液体介质中的受激拉曼散射多波长转换具有重要意义.     

神光Ⅲ原型装置的黑腔靶背向散射光测量技术

在惯性约束聚变研究中,为研究激光等离子体互作用产生的受激布里渊与受激拉曼散射光(SRS),基于神光Ⅲ原型装置利用新的背向散射诊断系统对真空黑腔靶与充气黑腔靶以及有无束匀滑效果情况下的散射光光谱进行了测量。实验发现,在相同条件下,充气黑腔靶SRS散射光比真空黑腔靶大,在终端光学组件中使用束匀滑效果后也能降低散射光。诊断系统记录的散射光强度及光谱的时间变化过程对研究激光等离子体相互作用提供了重要的数据支撑。     

掺杂材料对激光等离子体受激布里渊散射的影响

研究了激光等离子体背向受激布里渊散射光谱及反射率。当小能量短脉冲激光入射平面靶时，激光等离子体发展不充分，受激布里渊散射光谱结构相似，受激布里渊散射的增长主要受等离于体尺度的影响，随靶材料的有效原子序数的增加，等离子体尺度变小，受激布里渊散射反射率减少。     

光纤中受激拉曼散射连续谱研究

我们在实验中研究了自相位调制效应和受激四光子混频效应对受激拉曼散射光谱的影响。在较强的泵浦光和适当的入射条件下,得到九阶受激拉曼散射的级联 Stokes 连续平滑谱带,带宽3500cm~(-1),其强度可与530nm 泵浦光强相比拟。     

啁啾激光脉冲受激拉曼散射理论和粒子模拟

从入射光波、散射光波和等离子体波的三波耦合方程出发,推导小带宽频率啁啾对拉曼散射的影响.得到频率啁啾对拉曼背向散射有抑制作用,且背向散射不依赖于啁啾符号;正(负)啁啾对拉曼前向散射有微弱的增强(减弱)的作用.最后采用1D3V粒子模拟程序观测了不同啁啾参数下的受激拉曼散射现象,得到与理论分析一致的结果.     

非均匀等离子体中1/4临界密度附近受激散射的非线性演化

本文采用粒子模拟方法,针对长脉冲激光在非均匀等离子体中的传输过程,特别是在1/4临界密度附近,等离子体中受激散射的非线性演化现象,进行了细致的模拟研究.研究结果表明:在1/4临界面附近所产生的受激拉曼散射不稳定性,其散射光在等离子体中被捕获,并在该区域形成电磁孤子.电磁孤子的振幅随着不稳定性的发展而提高,并由此而产生一个有质动力场驱动周围的电子运动,离子随后被电荷分离场加速,最终形成准中性的密度坑.在单个密度坑形成后,由于该密度坑周围等离子体密度和温度产生了变化,使得等离子体中逐渐形成更多的密度坑.这些密度坑将等离子体分割成不连续的密度分布,而这种密度分布最终明显地抑制了受激拉曼散射和受激布里渊散射不稳定性的发展.     

一维动理学数值模拟激光与等离子体的相互作用

利用一维(1D3V)、显式、全电磁、相对论粒子模拟代码研究动理学范畴内激光与等离子体相互作用中的受激拉曼散射,给出了粒子代码的控制方程及其数值离散的详细方案,研究表明:动理学效应在受激拉曼散射不稳定性中十分重要;时问平均的反射率在阈值强度处跃升,在更高的激光强度处达到饱和;受激拉曼背向散射周期性地在次皮秒内爆发,离子效应延迟背向拉曼散射的发生;电子俘获导致了背向拉曼散射出现爆发;Langmuir波的非线性频移使得背向散射达到饱和。     

神光Ⅲ原型全孔径背向散射测量系统研制及应用

为了测量激光与等离子体相互作用产生的散射光份额,获得黑腔耦合效率实验中的激光注入率,研制了基于神光Ⅲ原型装置的全孔径背向散射测量系统。该系统利用聚焦透镜收集散射光,通过离轴抛物面镜进行缩束,并采用二向色镜将散射光分为两个支路后分别进行受激布里渊散射和受激拉曼散射光的能量、时间过程和光谱测量。实验测量了有、无束匀滑条件下的散射光份额。结果表明,在当前实验条件下,通过束匀滑可有效降低散射光份额,提高激光注入率。     

神光Ⅲ原型背向散射光特性研究

为了验证束匀滑的物理效果并获得充气黑腔的辐射源特性,在神光Ⅲ原型装置上利用背向散射测量系统对束匀滑和充气条件下的散射光能量份额及光谱进行了测量。散射光能量测量结果表明:当前实验条件下,束匀滑可有效抑制背向散射光份额,散射光份额由无束匀滑时的25%~35%降为2%~4%,充气黑腔中受激拉曼散射光份额明显增加,由真空腔的2%~4%增大至10%~13%。光谱测量结果表明:束匀滑后等离子体状态更均匀,充气黑腔的受激拉曼散射在激光作用前期就开始显著产生,而在真空黑腔中主要产生于激光作用的后期。     

Amplification of short laser pulses by Raman backscattering in capillary plasmas

Short laser pulses can be significantly amplified in the process of Raman backscattering in plasma inside an oversized dielectric capillary. A dielectric capillary allows obtaining high intensities of the output radiation by sustaining efficient amplification at large distances compared to the diffraction length. The efficiency of the interaction between the pump wave and the amplified pulse is shown not to be critically sensitive to the transverse structure of the wave fields. For a quasi-single-mode initial seed pulse and a low pump intensity, the amplified pulse tends to preserve its transverse structure due to nonlinear competition of the capillary eigen-modes. At a high power of the pump wave, multimode amplification always takes place but the growth of the front peak of the pulse still follows the one-dimensional model. The Raman backscattering instability of the pump wave resulting in the noise amplification can be suppressed in detuned interaction by chirping the pump wave or arranging an inhomogeneous plasma density profile along the trace of amplification. The efficiency of the desired pulse amplification does not significantly depend on detuning in the case of a smooth detuning profile. Density inhomogeneities are shown to exert less influence on the amplification within a capillary than in the one-dimensional problem. Parameters of a future experiment on the Raman amplification of a short laser pulse inside a capillary are proposed.     

等离子体密度对激光拉曼放大机理的影响

等离子体中的背向拉曼散射机理可以用来产生超短超强的激光脉冲. 本文采用粒子模拟方法模拟研究了等离子体密度对激光拉曼放大过程的影响. 研究发现, 过低的等离子体密度会导致等离子体波提前波破而降低能量转换效率; 而过高的等离子体密度又会导致其他不稳定性的快速增长, 限制作用距离和输出能量. 因此, 拉曼放大机理的最佳等离子体密度应处于等离子体波破的密度阈值附近, 可以获得最高的能量转换效率和能量输出. 另外, 空间频谱分析显示放大激光的强度饱和主要来自于自相位调制不稳定性的发展. 利用10¹³ W·cm^-2的抽运激光脉冲, 模拟证实拉曼放大机理可有效地将种子激光的强度从10¹³ W·cm^-2 放大到10¹⁷ W·cm^-2, 脉宽压缩到40 fs, 且能量转换效率达到58%.     

单频光纤拉曼放大器的实验研究

本文进行了1031 nm抽运光对1080 nm单频信号光的拉曼放大实验,详细研究了单频信号光种子功率、拉曼增益光纤长度、抽运方式等因素对 单频光纤拉曼放大器(SF-FRA)输出特性的影响.结果表明,在未受受激布里渊散射(SBS)因素限制时,相同抽运功率条件下,单频信号光种子功率越高,SF-FRA的效率越高;拉曼增益光纤越长,SF-FRA的效率越高;前向抽运时,SF-FRA的效率较高.实验中发现SF-FRA的拉曼放大过程对单频信号光的线宽有较小的展宽.此外,单频信号光远场干涉短曝光图像的对比度为0.814,单频信号光与SF-FRA放大光远场干涉短曝光图像可见度为0.719,表明SF-FRA对单频信号光的相干性有一定影响.实验结论可为其他特殊波长SF-FRA的设计提供一定的参考.     

基于光纤环形激光器和光放大的100 km光纤布拉格光栅传感系统

在基于掺铒光纤-拉曼混合放大的可调光纤环形激光器的光纤布拉格光栅(FBG)传感系统结构基础上,提出了延长传感距离的新方法。该方法以环形掺铒光纤激光器作为光源,采用双波长拉曼放大的方法对信号进行低噪声的双向放大,系统中间的两段掺铒光纤再利用剩余的抽运功率产生自发辐射光和放大传感信号,使得整个系统能够在超长的传感距离上获得很高的信噪比。实验表明使用一只40 mW的掺铒光纤放大(EDFA)抽运源、一只170 mW的拉曼抽运源和一只2 W的拉曼抽运源,可以使整个系统的传感距离达到100km,并且传感系统的光纤布拉格光栅反射信号均能获得超过57 dB的优良信噪比,从而实现在超长距离上的光纤布拉格光栅传感。     

Long-distance fiber sensor system based on the second-order Raman pump and amplification

We demonstrate a novel technique to realize a long-distance fiber sensor system based on the second-order Raman pump and amplification. With the second-order Raman pump and amplification, a gain spectrum around 1582-nm is achieved. It serves as not only the optical source for the remote fiber sensor but also the filter to intensity modulated the wavelength shift of the fiber sensor. A long-distance fiber strain sensor system is demonstrated by adopting a fiber Fabry?CPérot sensor. Experimental results show that the wavelength shift of the sensor in response to the strain is simultaneously intensity modulated by the steep slope with a high sensitivity, while it is temperature insensitive. With the side gain spectrum served as a quasi-linear filter, the sensor can also be quasi-linearly intensity-modulated.     

Superradiant linear Raman amplification in plasma using a chirped pump pulse

A theoretical and numerical investigation of small-signal Raman backscattering from a chirped pump pulse in plasma shows that an ultrashort probe pulse will grow superradiantly, i.e., with an amplitude that scales with the propagation length while contracting self-similarly. These features are commonly associated with the nonlinear stages of Raman amplification in the pump depletion and Compton regimes. We show that the superradiant scaling results in very broad-bandwidth amplification due to gain distributed in frequency as well as spatially. Since different frequencies excite the plasma at different positions, wave breaking is avoided, and prepulses and pedestals are substantially suppressed. Linear chirped pulse amplification in plasma could provide a very broad-bandwidth alternative to solid state laser amplifiers, potentially usable for optical pulses a few cycles in duration.     

Observation of superradiant amplification of ultrashort laser pulses in a plasma

We demonstrate the amplification of a femtosecond signal pulse in an underdense plasma by a novel mechanism called superradiant amplification. The pulse is amplified by a counterpropagating few picosecond long pump pulse. In the superradiant regime, the ponderomotive forces exceed the electrostatic forces and arrange the plasma electrons to reflect the pump light into the signal pulse. We found a significant amplification in energy and intensity. The time structure of the amplified signal pulse carries intrinsic features of the superradiant regime. Sub-10-fs pulses of petawatt power appear feasible.     

基于硅波导的喇曼光放大器

在硅波导上添加反向偏压的PIN结构,当波导产生受激喇曼散射时,可以将波导中双光子吸收(TPA)产生的光生自由载流子扫出波导,降低了波导的非线性损失,极大地提高了硅波导中泵浦光对信号光的喇曼增益。为了应用已经非常成熟的硅工艺,并且应用硅波导使器件小型化,根据法布里-帕罗(F-P)腔和行波放大器理论,在硅波导两端的解理面蒸镀增透膜,应用这种波导的喇曼效应设计了一种光放大器,即基于硅波导的喇曼光放大器。建立了计算放大器增益的方程,给出了不同波导长度和输入功率情况下的放大器增益,得出适当增加波导长度和泵浦光功率可以得到较高喇曼增益的结论。基于硅的光放大器有较高的饱和功率且没有泵浦源的限制,通过调整泵浦激光的波长可以放大不同波长的信号光。     

Theory of Raman scattering in Europium-chalcogenides

The intensity of the spin assisted Raman scattering in the Eu-chalcogenides is calculated using the excited states which were used in the analysis of the optical absorption. Various mechanisms are examined for the Raman scattering. In these mechanisms, the cross effect of the 4f spin-orbit interaction and the exciton-phonon interaction is found to be the most important for the scattering intensity. The characteristics of the Raman scattering from this mechanism are as follows: When the frequency of the incident light is in the tail region of the absorption peak, the polarization of the scattered light is perpendicular to that of the incident light; when the light in the middle region of the absorption peak is applied, the polarization of the incident light is depolarized in the scattered light; the scattering intensity decreases when the spin fluctuation is suppressed by an application of magnetic field or by lowering temperature through the Curie temperature. These characteristics in the Raman scattering have been observed in the experiments.