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。     

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.     

位相畸变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,详细考虑了激光脉冲的位相变化、时间波形、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诸多因素,研究了空间位相畸变对空气中长程传输过程中产生的SRRS效应的影响。研究结果表明：位相畸变对阈值条件和时间特性影响较小,而对光束质量影响较为明显;随着位相畸变的增大,光束的能量分布变得极不均匀,光束的光强对比度也明显变大,从而使激光光束质量变差,而且当传输距离达到阈值条件后,随着传输距离的增加,光束质量将进一步变差。     

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。     

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。     

超短中红外参量放大过程的时空走离特性

 计算了MgO:LiNbO₃晶体中，共线与非共线相位匹配光参量放大产生超短中红外激光脉冲过程中的相位匹配曲线、有效非线性系数以及时间和空间走离情况。结果表明，采用非共线相位匹配方式，可以实现三波间群速度匹配；在抑制了泵浦光与信号光之间的空间走离的同时加大了泵浦光与闲频光之间的空间走离，但这种影响可以忽略；同时非共线角的引入使相位匹配角增大，提高了有效非线性系数。因此，非共线角的引入在不影响空间走离的情况下，有效补偿超短中红外参量放大过程中的时间走离，有利于参量放大转换效率的提高。     

超短激光脉冲二倍频理论分析

采用快速傅里叶变换（FFT）算法和Rung-Kutta法对KDP晶体中超短激光脉冲二倍频过程作了研究。详细讨论了群速度失配、群速度色散和三阶非线性相位调制效应对倍频光脉冲波形、光谱及转换效率的影响。研究结果表明：在超短激光脉冲二倍频中，三阶非线性相位调制效应可使二倍频光脉冲形状发生畸变，光谱明显展宽且转换效率降低；当入射基频光功率密度大于100GW/cm2时，三阶非线性效应是影响倍频过程的主要因素。     

基于半导体光放大器垂直双泵浦对偏振复用正交相移键控信号波长变换的性能研究

针对偏振复用相位调制信号的全光波长变换特性问题,基于半导体光放大器中四波混频效应,建立了对偏振复用正交相移键控信号的全光波长变换理论模型.根据理论分析,建立了仿真系统,仿真结果表明:泵浦光与信号光之间的频率间隔、偏振复用信号中的一个信号与一号泵浦光的偏振夹角对系统转换效率和信号质量有影响;波长转换过程中交叉相位调制产生的相位噪音会对信号质量有影响,且当泵浦光功率较大、泵浦光功率远大于信号光功率时,交叉相位调制效应的影响较小,仿真结果与理论分析一致.本文研究方法和相关结论对其它偏振复用信号基于半导体光放大器四波混频效应的波长变换研究有一定的参考价值.     

大气湍流对空间光耦合至单模光纤的影响

 根据弱湍理论，考虑湍流强度闪烁、孔径平均效应、湍流波前畸变及耦合系统跟踪误差的影响，导出了空间光到单模光纤的平均耦合效率及耦合功率起伏方差模型。根据Hufnagel-Valley 5/7折射率结构模型，对下行连接及上行连接的平均耦合效率及耦合功率起伏进行了研究。仿真结果表明，对于下行连接，随着地面接收天线孔径的增大，相对功率起伏先是由于孔径平均效应而减小，而后由于湍流波前畸变的影响而逐渐增大；对于上行连接，可忽略湍流波前畸变及孔径平均效应的影响。     

Single-frequency Brillouin distributed feedback fiber laser

We demonstrate a single-frequency Brillouin distributed feedback laser (DFB). The DFB laser cavity was a 12.4 cm long fiber Bragg grating with a π-phase shift offset from the grating center. It exhibited a threshold of 30 mW and conversion efficiency from pump to Stokes wave as high as 27%. Higher-order Stokes waves were suppressed by more than 20 dB. The Stokes output of the laser could be obtained in either the forward or backward direction, simply by changing the orientation of the offset of the discrete phase shift with respect to the pump propagation direction. The DFB laser operated over a pump frequency range of 1.2 GHz, more than 60 times larger than the SBS gain bandwidth.     

A multilens Raman cell as a tool to obtain high optical quality and efficient 1st Stokes backward conversion

A multilens high pressure H₂ cell has been used to demonstrate that efficient, high optical quality and low threshold down-conversion to 1st Stokes can be obtained also with a poor quality broadband pump, with just the condition that the pump pulsewidth is larger than the cell transit time. A backward 1st Stokes with 0.7 overall quantum efficiency conversion has been obtained from a broadband Nd:YAG duplicated laser.     

Polarization dynamics of intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser

Experimental study of low-frequency dynamics of an intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser demonstrates the influence of the interaction of orthogonally polarized modes, participating in frequency doubling (type II phase matching), on the stability of the laser output. At a sufficiently low pump rate and low conversion efficiency, the laser shows stable operation with a low noise level at the frequencies of relaxation oscillations. At a high pump power and/or a high conversion efficiency, the laser emission becomes unstable as a result of Hopf bifurcation at the frequencies of relaxation oscillations that are responsible for the anti-phase polarization dynamics of the laser.     

Observation of the Rabi oscillation of light driven by an atomic spin wave

Coherent conversion between a Raman pump field and its Stokes field is observed in a Raman process with a strong atomic spin wave initially prepared by another Raman process operated in the stimulated emission regime. The oscillatory behavior resembles the Rabi oscillation in atomic population in a two-level atomic system driven by a strong light field. The Rabi-like oscillation frequency is found to be related to the strength of the prebuilt atomic spin wave. High conversion efficiency of 40% from the Raman pump field to the Stokes field is recorded and it is independent of the input Raman pump field. This process can act as a photon frequency multiplexer and may find wide applications in quantum information science.     

Rotational Raman scattering dependence on pump polarization

The influence of the ellipticity degree of the pump radiation polarization on threshold energies and energy conversion efficiencies of stimulated rotational Raman scattering (SRRS) are investigated in H₂ with a XeCl excimer laser, by using different focusing geometries. For the first time, it is shown that the dependence of SRRS on pump radiation polarization is also affected by the focusing geometry, i.e. whether low- or high-angle focusing is applied. The experimentally determined threshold energies as a function of the pump radiation polarization are in accordance with theory mainly at high-angle focusing geometries. It is also shown for the first time that gain suppression effects on vibrational Raman scattering have to be considered in understanding the experimental results. Received: 5 January 1999 / Final version: 10 September 1999 / Published online: 8 March 2000