PHOTON ACCELERATION DRIVEN BY AN INTENSE LASER PULSE

Interaction of a laser field with a plasma wave is studied by metric optics. Analysis shows that the frequency upshifting of the laser pulse results from the plasma density gradient. A laser beam can be thought of as a packet of photons moving in a plasma and thus the laser frequency upshifting is equivalent to photon acceleration. Examination of the three-dimensional motion equations shows that a laser beam diffraction occurs in the presence of a radial variation of the plasma density. It is argued that the focusing mechanism originating from the plasma wave can curb laser diffraction so that photons may be trapped in the plasma wave and accelerated continuously.     

Evaluation of probe lasers employed in optical diagnostics for phase transformation of thin films during excimer laser crystallization

The stability and reliability of probe laser is an important factor affecting the inspection of the phase transformation process of Si thin films during excimer laser crystallization using in-situ time-resolved optical measurements. The changes in 2D intensity profile, peak power density, and beam wander of the commonly used helium–neon (He–Ne) and diode laser are investigated experimentally. It is found that the peak power density of He–Ne laser is higher than that of diode laser, while the total power of He–Ne laser is lower than that of diode laser. Although the instability in the peak power density of He–Ne laser will increase with increasing the operation time, the beam stability of He–Ne laser is better than that of diode laser. For long-time operation (>24 h) of optical measurements, the diode laser is a good candidate of probe laser. Conversely, the diode laser is suitable for the short-time operation (<24 h) of optical measurements because the beam-wander is higher than that of He–Ne laser.     

超短脉冲激光与微小水滴相互作用中电子密度和光场的时空分布

为了研究超短激光脉冲和液滴相互作用过程中电子密度和光场的变化,基于非线性麦克斯韦方程组和电离速率方程,构建了激光等离子体非线性瞬态时域耦合模型,对飞秒激光脉冲击穿微米量级水滴时的电子密度和光场的时空分布进行了计算.结果显示水滴的击穿阈值最小可达2 TW/cm~2,为同等条件下无边界水介质击穿阈值的1/4.随着脉冲能量增强,水滴内自由电子密度峰值区域逆着激光入射方向移动,且入射光越强,水滴对光传播的屏蔽越明显.光束在水滴出射端外部汇聚,汇聚点的光功率密度可达入射光的5倍,且时域波形出现压缩和变形.另外,水滴对激光能量的吸收系数随光强增大而增大,并最终趋于饱和.     

激光水中衰减系数的比较测量法研究

研究了激光水下衰减系数的比较测量法,通过在激光传输路径上进行多点测量激光能量或功率,经过数据拟合获得准确的激光水中衰减系数,此方法可以消除一般测量方法容器侧壁的反射及吸收的影响,并可在较长距离测量激光传输路径上不同位置的衰减系数。在实验室中测量了脉冲绿光、连续绿光、连续蓝光在自来水中衰减系数并进行了比较,结果表明蓝光在水中的衰减系数大于绿光。对水下光通信及水下目标探测具有一定参考价值。     

Femtosecond laser-induced stimulation of a single neuron in a neuronal network

We demonstrated the stimulation of neurons at a single-cell level in cultured neuronal network by a focused femtosecond laser. When the femtosecond laser was focused on a neuron loaded with a fluorescent calcium indicator, the fluorescence intensity immediately increased at the laser spot, suggesting that intracellular Ca²⁺ increases in the neuronal cell due to the femtosecond laser irradiation. The probability of Ca²⁺ elevation at the laser spot depended on the average laser power, irradiation time, and position of the focal point along the optical axis, indicating that the femtosecond laser activates neurons because of multiphoton absorption. Moreover, after laser irradiation of a single neuron cultured on multielectrode arrays, the evoked electrical activity of the neurons was demonstrated by electrophysiological systems, which concluded that the focused femtosecond laser could achieve stimulating a single neuron in a neuronal network with high spatial and temporal resolution.     

低强度激光辐照HeLa细胞诱导增殖效应的可见光谱特性

比较研究了可见波段405,514,633和785nm低强度激光辐照HeLa细胞的促增殖效应。实验采用100和1 000J.m-2两种有效能量密度的可见光波辐照细胞,照射后24,48,72h采用MTT法检测细胞活性。结果表明,405,633,785nm激光均能促进HeLa细胞增殖,且呈波长和时间依赖性;633nm激光辐照对细胞促增殖效应最显著;514nm激光辐照对HeLa细胞促增殖效应较不明显。不同光剂量对细胞增殖效应不同,405,633,785nm激光辐照时能量密度为1 000J.m-2的辐照组细胞增殖均较100J.m-2辐照组明显,而514nm激光辐照时1 000J.m-2辐照组与100J.m-2辐照组细胞增殖的差异不明显。     

预失真半导体激光列阵技术

相干半导体激光列阵体积小、重量轻,输出能量密度高,非常适于用作对光源尺寸要求苛刻的航天激光光源。为避免随航天器在轨运行的半导体列阵经受变化梯度剧烈的恒星、行星、空间低温热沉的交替加热和冷却的影响,以便能够正常工作,采用潜望式结构设计,将列阵置于舱内,列阵向航天器外输出激光必须经由舱外输出反射镜完成。然而,舱外输出反射镜受周围热环境影响和列阵输出激光束照射,会产生随机热变形,导致输出舱外的激光能量发散;并且,舱外输出反射镜面热变形导致镜面法向偏转,使得输出光束产生较大的指向偏转误差,这极大地降低了能够作用于目标之上的激光束的能量密度,严重恶化输出舱外的光束质量。通过理论推导结合ANSYS有限元分析软件和相关实验,在研究清楚相干半导体激光列阵作为航天激光源的构造、其光场与周围热环境共同作用于舱外输出反射镜的规律与特点后,给出了航天预失真半导体激光列阵激光源技术,通过回波法适时测量舱外输出反射镜引起的波前畸变,处理器配合D/A和高压放大器,驱动驱动器,使舱内添加的反射镜预失真成形,适时使列阵输出产生预失真波前畸变,以抵消舱外输出反射镜的热变形对输出舱外的激光束的影响。相关系统运行实验结果显示,此技术使半导体激光列阵能够适应宇航环境,向舱外输出保障质量的激光束。     

Slave-master dynamics of semiconductor laser with short external cavity

In this paper, the dynamical response of a slave semiconductor laser, with short cavity, under injection of a chaotic light from a master semiconductor laser has been widely studied. This is analyzed numerically via bifurcation diagrams, in terms of the phase and strength of the feedback, as control parameters. It is shown that, both of these parameters should be considered in the dynamical response of the slave laser. Our numerical calculations show that the dynamics of the slave laser imitates the master laser, in addition to the feedback strength, it also heavily depends on the injection dynamics and rates. Numerical results also show that for different values of the control parameters, the intensity of the slave laser output can be fully different from the injection source. However, we found out under appropriate conditions, that the dynamics of the slave can be the same as the master laser. The results also show that the output of the slave laser, compared to its output without injection, can be stabled in the appropriate values of the injection rate from the master laser.     

激光驱动晶体发射低阶谐波强度随激光波长的变化规律

通过数值求解激光驱动下电子在一维周期势场中运动的薛定谔方程,研究了晶体在激光场中发射的低阶谐波强度随激光波长的变化规律,结果表明,晶体发射低阶谐波强度随激光波长的变化规律与晶体发射高次谐波第一平台区域的变化规律不同.已有的研究表明晶体发射高次谐波第一平台区域的强度会随激光波长的增加而衰减,而我们发现晶体发射低阶谐波的强度会随激光波长的增加而增加.通过对晶体发射低阶谐波的时频分析、晶体价带能量变化与激光光子能量的关系,解释了晶体发射低阶谐波强度随激光波长增加而增加的原因.     

灯泵浦激光器输出激光稳定性实验研究

分析了灯泵浦激光器的特点以及影响其输出激光稳定性的原因,提出了在激光器谐振腔内加一个“Q开关”的方法来控制输出激光的稳定性,以氙灯泵浦的被动锁模Nd:YAG激光器为例进行了实验研究,证实了此方案是可行的.     

Surface hardening of titanium by pulsed Nd:YAG laser irradiation at 1064- and 532-nm wavelengths in nitrogen atmosphere

The surface hardness of titanium modified by laser irradiation at different wavelengths in nitrogen atmosphere was investigated. Further, surface characteristics such as morphology, chemical state, and chemical composition in the depth direction were also studied. The size and depth of the craters observed in the laser-irradiated spots increased monotonically with an increase in the laser power. Furthermore, the crater formed by the 532-nm laser was deeper than that formed by the 1064-nm laser for the same laser power. Laser power beyond a certain threshold value was required to obtain a titanium nitride layer. When the laser power exceeds the threshold value, a titanium nitride layer of a few tens of nanometers in thickness was formed on the substrate, whereas a titanium oxide layer containing small amounts of nitrogen was formed when the laser power is below the threshold value. Thus, it was shown that laser irradiation using appropriate laser parameters can successfully harden a titanium substrate, and the actual hardness of the titanium nitride layer, measured by nanoindentation, was approximately five times that of an untreated titanium surface.     

激光无铅钎焊速度的影响因素(英文)

为了提高激光无铅钎焊的速度,对影响激光无铅钎焊速度的因素(如激光的参数、所用钎料和基体的特性、钎焊的系统结构等)进行了分析研究。研究认为,在激光器、钎料及基体等已定的情况下,相对于那些受到机械惯性制约的移动激光加工头或移动工作台的激光钎焊系统,一种配备了振镜扫描系统和f-theta聚焦透镜的激光钎焊系统具有更高的钎焊速度。另外,对激光钎焊过程中激光束的扫描路径进行了优化,这种优化能在不增加硬件成本的基础上大大缩短总扫描路程,较大程度地提高激光钎焊速度。最后通过实例对激光钎焊的快速性进行了验证。     

Generation of nearly transform-limited pulses in subnanosecond region with TEA nitrogen-laser-pumped dye laser

A dye laser is transversely pumped by a TEA nitrogen laser with 700 ps duration. The dye laser pulse has a spectral linewidth of 0.007 nm and a pulse width of ≈ 140 ps, giving a time-bandwidth product of 1.5. It is pointed out that the fluorescence lifetime of the laser dye plays an important role in generation of laser emission using a long laser cavity under subnanosecond pulse pumping.     

Analysis of the spectral linewidth of three-cavity semiconductor laser diodes

The spectral linewidth for a semiconductor laser diode coupled to two external cavities (known as a three-cavity laser diode) is studied in the article. A closed-form expression for the linewidth of this laser is derived by analyzing the number of photons in the laser cavity. It is found that, because of the optical feedback provided by the external cavities, the photon lifetime becomes longer than that of a solitary Fabry-Perot (FP) laser, hence reducing the value of the spectral linewidth. Our theoretical investigations reveal that the linewidth of a three-cavity laser can be reduced further by using external mirrors with high reflectivities and using anti-refection (AR) coatings on the laser diode facets. We have also studied the effects of uncertainties in the linewidth enhancement factor a due to optical feedback and found that such uncertainties have negligible effects on the validity of our results.     

倍频纳秒激光驱动类氖锗X射线激光的研究

利用JB19等程序分别对基频和倍频激光驱动条件下类氖锗X射线激光进行了模拟计算,结果表明利用倍频激光驱动同样也能够获得高强度的类氖锗X射线激光输出,只是对驱动激光的输出要求要高3.3倍.尽管如此,这也为将来在大型激光装置上开展类氖系列X射线激光研究指明了方向.初步的实验研究也证实了利用倍频纳秒激光驱动能够获得类氖锗X射线激光输出的结果. 关键词： X射线激光 类氖锗 数值模拟     

长脉冲keV X射线源的辐射特征

 利用神光Ⅱ第九路2 ns长脉冲激光束作用厚钛固体靶，研究了产生的keV X射线源的辐射区域和总辐射功率的时间行为。结果表明：在长脉冲激光作用厚固体靶时，硬X射线线辐射功率的时间行为以及辐射体积的时间行为与激光脉冲波形一致；长脉冲时，等离子体2维膨胀效应非常显著，keV X射线线辐射的径向辐射区域在激光焦斑尺寸附近达到饱和，导致X射线线辐射功率出现饱和，且keV X射线线辐射的辐射体积正比于焦斑尺寸的3次方。从理论和实验角度研究了在同样入射激光能量下，辐射功率随激光焦斑尺寸的变化关系，发现keV X射线线辐射的饱和辐射功率正比于焦斑尺寸的5/3次方，理论结果与实验结果一致。并讨论了相同基频输出激光能量下，keV X射线辐射总功率随激光波长的变化关系，发现即使考虑了倍频效率的影响，短波长激光仍然有利于keV X射线的发射。     

基于波长330nm激光激发多色激光导星回波光子数的数值计算与探讨

采用无模激光器发射波长为330 nm的激光激发多色激光导星,需要考虑脉冲激光重频率、激光带宽、激光初始光斑直径以及大气透过率对回波光子数的影响.通过数值模拟,计算了高斯光束的脉冲激光和连续激光激发多色激光导星在实际大气中后向辐射330 nm和2207 nm波长的回波光子数.数值计算结果表明,在垂直发射和接收的情况下,当到达大气中间层的激光能量为1 W时,连续激光能够获得更多的回波光子数,并且回波光子数几乎无起伏.对于脉冲激光,提高脉冲激光重频率达到50 kHz以上时,多色激光导星330 nm的回波光子数随脉冲重频率的增加趋于有限值;当大气能见度小于5 km且大气相干长度为12.8 cm时,大约需要34 W以上的激光发射能量,才能获得满足使用自然星全倾斜探测的330 nm回波光子数.对于连续激光,相同情况下,大约需要20 W以上的激光发射能量.     

Stabilization of high-power copper vapour laser

Design considerations for stable trouble-free operation of a 100 W copper vapour laser are described. Implementation of laser head and modulator design principles result in a laser that meets these goals. The laser is switched by a single small thyratron that operates below all its maximum ratings.     

Dynamic simulation on the temperature field of laser micro-patterning metal in the liquid

To further understand the mechanism of laser electrochemical etching metal, it is necessary to describe the temperature field induced by laser heating metal at the liquid–solid interfaces. For solving the complex problem of laser heating a metal immersed in a liquid, the thermal phenomena adjacent to the metal–liquid interface, which was induced by means of irradiating a stainless steel sample immersed in a liquid with an 808 nm semiconductor laser beam, were numerically investigated. Based on a simplified method to solve the transient explosive boiling when a continuous wave (CW) laser heating a material in a liquid, a commercial finite element analysis (FEA) code (ABAQUS) was used to directly solve and model the transient temperature fields of laser micro-patterning metal in a liquid. As known from simulation results, the simulation of laser scanning indicates that it realizes the effect of pulse laser heating owing to laser moving and liquid cooling. Moreover, laser scanning achieves the pattern at a high resolution. At the same time, the experiment phenomena also proved that the simulation results were reasonable.