46.2W连续输出808nm高功率无铝半导体激光线阵模块

利用InGaAs/InGaAsP应变量子阱外延材料制作出高功率半导体激光器线阵模块,前腔面镀制了单层Al₂O₃,后腔面镀制了Al₂O₃/5(HfO₂/SiO₂)/HfO₂,采用无氧铜热沉和高效率的液体冷却器散热。在室温下,驱动电流50A时输出功率高达46.2W,最高电光转换效率41.3%,斜率效率1.15W/A。器件中心激射波长810nm,波长温度系数为0.28nm/℃,光谱半峰全宽(FWHM)₃nm,寿命突破11732h。     

半导体激光器堆栈填充因子对慢轴光束准直的影响

为实现基于微透镜阵列的高功率半导体激光器堆栈光束整形,对带有快轴准直透镜的高功率半导体激光器堆栈慢轴光束准直技术进行研究。在慢轴光束准直理论分析基础上,着重研究了慢轴填充因子对其光束准直的影响,并对不同填充因子的半导体激光器慢轴光束准直方案进行了分析。针对实际使用的填充因子0.5的高功率半导体激光器堆栈采用以Bar条为单元进行整体准直设计,并采用基于空间扫描法的发散角测试装置对慢轴准直后剩余发散角进行测试,实现准直后剩余发散角半角2.12°,实验表明该准直方法的有效性。     

二极管泵浦高能激光研究进展和展望

高能激光广泛应用于材料加工、科学研究、空间碎片清除、军事应用等领域。二极管泵浦高能激光具有结构紧凑,系统简单、全电驱无限弹仓的特点,近年来,各类二极管泵浦高能激光围绕着同时实现高功率、高效率、高光束质量这一总目标发展迅速。详细综述了国内外高平均功率块状固体激光、高功率可见光波段激光、高峰值功率激光、高功率光纤激光、碱金属蒸气激光等二极管泵浦高能激光的研究进展,并对其发展趋势进行了展望。     

A diode side-pumped YAG/Nd:YAG/YAG composite crystal laser

A diode-bar side-pumped YAG/Nd:YAG/YAG composite crystal laser is presented. A maximum output power of 18.4 W at 1.064 μm with a slop efficiency of 57% and an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 46% was obtained for a pump power of 40 W. Compared with a side-pumped conventional crystal laser in the same experimental conditions, the side-pumped composite crystal laser improved the optical-to-optical conversion efficiency by 12%. Experimental results indicate that a composite crystal can depress the thermal effects effectively and improve the optical-to-optical conversion efficiency easily in the diode side-pumped lasers. The composite crystal has great potential in high-power diode side-pumped lasers.     

Theory of high-power mode-locked lasers with a slow absorber

We develop an analytical theory of high-power passively mode-locked lasers with a slow absorber; the theory is valid at pulse energies well exceeding the saturation energy. We analyze the Haus modelocking master equation in the pulse-energy-domain representation, approximating the intensity profile function by a series in the vicinity of its peak value. We consider the high-power operation regime of subpicosecond blue–violet GaN mode-locked diode lasers, using the approach developed.     

Lasers — their applications and operational requirements

Present and potential applications of high-power gas lasers to such diverse areas as industrial systems (alignment, Raman scattering, Doppler velocimeters, materials processing, etc), isotope-separation, thermonuclear fusion, and military applications are discussed. Different operational characteristics are required for various laser applications, and these are described. A brief introduction to the general characteristics of gas lasers is given; and to gas-dynamic, electrical, and chemical methods of excitation.     

Narrow bandwidth operation of high-power broad-area diode laser using cascaded phase-conjugate injection locking

A broad-area laser is injection-locked by another broad-area laser that is also injection-locked by a single-mode diode laser. Two double-phase conjugate mirrors of photorefractive BaTaO₃ are used to couple the master laser beams to the first slave laser, and the first slave laser output to the second slave laser. One of the double-phase conjugate mirrors is built up with the beams from two broad-area lasers. Two slave lasers are oscillating in single longitudinal mode at 808.5 nm and the spectral width is the same as that of the master laser. Final single-mode output power from the second slave broad-area laser is 840 mW, which is limited by the power of the injection beam. This work verifies the possibility of the multi-stage cascaded injection locking of high-power diode lasers with phase-conjugate injection. Received: 18 November 1998 / Revised version: 29 January 1999 / Published online: 7 April 1999     

Optical fibres for material processing lasers

Fibre transmission of high-power radiation has opened the laser a new dimension of material processing applications. The three-dimensional treatment revolutionised a far field of the production technology. One impressed example is the laser welding process in the automotive industry. The Nd–YAG solid state laser in combination with the optical fibre increase the automation and the flexibility of a whole industry. The next generation of Audis aluminium alloy car body is mainly welded by fibre-guided Nd–YAG laser beams. Since the past 10 years the maximum average laser power transmitted through optical fibres increase from some 100 W up to 10 kW. For industrial application only Nd–YAG lasers and recently the diode lasers are economically suited for fibre transmission.     

Facet degradation of high-power diode laser arrays

Micro-Raman facet temperatures of high-power diode lasers with different waveguide architectures are compared. For regular operation conditions, the thermal behavior of ‘unaged’ arrays emitting in the 808-nm wavelength region with different architectures is similar, however, with an increased load thermal behaviors differ significantly and exhibit failure events at facet temperatures typically between 150 and 450 °C. From various experiments, among them facet temperature measurements for ultrahigh-power operation as well as by preparative failure analytics, we provide evidence that in arrays the front facets are significantly affected by device operation and influence the failure behavior of the whole high-power diode laser also in cases when the device failure is accompanied by dislocation creation inside the device. Received: 3 October 1999 / Accepted: 9 November 1999 / Published online: 8 March 2000     

大功率半导体激光器发展及相关技术概述

激光被称为"最快的刀"、"最准的尺"、"最亮的光",与原子能、计算机、半导体并称为20世纪新四大发明。大功率半导体激光器在工业加工、医疗美容、光纤通信、无人驾驶、智能机器人等方面有着广泛的应用。如何实现大功率半导体激光光源,一直以来都是国际的研究前沿和学科热点。为此,简述了大功率半导体激光器的发展历史,综述了大功率半导体激光器的共用技术,包括大功率芯片技术和大功率合束技术,并对大功率半导体激光的发展方向进行了展望。