拼接型光栅对压缩器中刻线密度差对输出脉冲的影响及补偿方案

拼接型光栅对压缩器中子光栅的刻线密度不一致会降低压缩器的品质,补偿刻线密度差的影响对于提高输出脉冲的性能具有十分重要的意义.基于光线追迹的方法建立了理论模型,数值分析了刻线密度差所导致的出射光角度偏移及输出脉冲展宽程度.提出同时用水平角偏误差和纵向错位误差来补偿光栅刻线密度差影响的方案,给出不同刻线密度差时的理论光栅偏转角度和对应的平移距离以及该方案的补偿范围.利用空谱干涉测量方法,验证了该方案在一定范围内可校正出射光的角度偏转,较好地补偿二、三阶色散误差,且实验与理论结果较为符合.本研究可为拼接光栅压缩器的设计与调整提供指导.     

飞秒脉冲放大器中色散的计算和评价方法

用光线追迹法论证了光栅球面镜系统与普通的光栅对系统是一对相位共轭元件,并提出了光栅球面镜系统色散的解析计算公式,以及对一个典型的放大系统做了模拟.模拟结果表明,对于一个放大系统,存在一个最佳的材料色散,用它可以获得最大的无色散带宽. 关键词： 飞秒激光放大器 展宽器 压缩器 色散补偿     

拼接光栅压缩器中光栅拼缝对脉冲信噪比的影响

针对平行光栅对结构的压缩器和圆形入射光束,建立了光栅拼缝所引起的光谱剪切的数学模型,并模拟了该光谱剪切对压缩脉冲信噪比的影响.与双曲正割型脉冲相比,光栅拼缝对高斯型脉冲信噪比的影响较小.随着光栅拼缝宽度的减小与光束口径的增大,压缩脉冲信噪比得到提高.对于确定的拼接光栅压缩器和光束直径,当脉冲中心波长与光谱剪切中心波长(...     

OPCPA系统中光栅对不平行度对脉冲时间波形的影响

 利用光线追迹法和四阶龙格-库塔法分析了光参量啁啾脉冲放大系统中实际展宽器和压缩器所带来的各阶色散，并将其代入放大过程数值模拟了脉冲变化的情况，讨论了压缩器光栅对表面不平行、刻线不平行、信号光强度、泵浦光强度等因素对输出脉冲宽度和时间波形的影响。结果表明，光栅对表面不平行将引起脉冲宽度变大，且光栅顺时针旋转对脉冲宽度和波形影响更大。而光栅刻线不平行时，当仅考虑二阶色散时，夹角为0.8°时脉宽最小，考虑到三阶色散时，夹角为1°脉宽最小，且光栅顺时针和逆时针旋转对脉冲的作用相同。对实际OPCPA系统，当放大晶体材料及长度一定时，尽量调整压缩器光栅平行，信号光强度和泵浦光强度有一最佳值能使输出脉冲宽度达到最小。     

拼接光栅缝隙对激光脉冲光强分布的影响

以拼接光栅作为色散元件的激光脉冲压缩器中,要求脉冲压缩光栅表面光强分布均匀、能量输出效率高。利用菲涅耳-基尔霍夫衍射原理对脉冲压缩光栅表面光强和远场光强分布进行了研究。计算了拼接光栅缝隙宽度对光栅表面光强变化量和远场光强极大值的影响。在利特罗角附近入射时发现激光脉冲光强分布与拼接光栅缝隙宽度相关,得出了光栅拼接缝隙宽度应控制在0.5 mm以内。适当提高缝隙衍射效率能够改善光强分布均匀性和提高光能量输出,提出了对拼接缝隙采用两次重复曝光以提高其衍射效率的方法。     

阵列光栅压缩器的空域特性

 引入角度偏差、位移偏差作为拼接光栅系统的物理参数，定义了拼接光栅的孔径函数，利用傅里叶角谱理论研究了高斯脉冲入射拼接光栅压缩器后的远场分布特性。研究表明：出射脉冲仍然是高斯型脉冲，但包络中心发生偏移，偏移量由角度偏差量和光束口径决定;位移偏差引入的相位随着拼接光栅压缩器传递，其对远场焦斑的影响，取决于每片子光栅的非整数倍光栅常数的横向位移偏差和纵向位移偏差的综合作用。通过数值计算得到了各维偏差对阵列光栅压缩器空域特性的影响,计算表明:光栅面外角度偏差(俯仰左右)和条纹平行度偏差都必须控制在1 mrad以内，在此范围内，应将位移偏差控制在52 nm以内。     

啁啾脉冲放大系统展宽压缩器各阶色散分析

 通过在光程差中增加相位校正项,重新推导了更为完善的压缩器各阶色散解析式。并对压缩器的各阶色散作了光线追迹的模拟计算,得到与解析式完全一致的计算结果,从而验证了解析式的正确性。基于解析式和光线追迹的方法,更加系统完善地对比较常用的Offner展宽器的各阶色散进行了研究,分析了入射角、光栅与凹面镜距离对其各阶色散及剩余各阶色散的影响。同时,还对非匹配的展宽压缩系统的剩余色散的影响因素进行了讨论。     

超高亮度激光系统中光栅对脉冲整形器失调对输出脉冲时间特性的影响

在较全面地给出光栅对脉冲整形器失调产生附加相位项表达式的同时，详细地讨论了展宽器失调的附加相位放大系统传输过程中的变化，并与压缩器失调特性作了比较，分析了这些失调对超高亮度激光系统输出脉冲及其聚焦场时间特性的影响，得到了确定光栅对脉冲整形器失调容限的基本原则。     

使用辅助光栅的平面变间距全息光栅加工理论研究

变间距全息光栅具有自聚焦和消像差功能,是高分辨率光谱仪与同步辐射单色器中的重要元件。研究了使用平面等间距光栅产生非球面波,记录平面变间距全息光栅的方法。根据几何光学的光线追迹理论,推导了光栅参量的四阶解析表达式。并基于费马原理,提出了记录光路的光线追迹数值算法。应用所推导的光栅参量四阶表达式,仿真设计了变间距全息光栅。通过合理选择记录参量,可以避免光栅基底受到零级及高阶衍射光场的影响。设计结果表明,理论光栅线密度与要求值相当符合;经光线追迹数值算法验证,解析表达式的展开误差在整个记录区域内小于1.5线;考虑到实际加工工艺允许误差,使用辅助光栅的记录光路对记录参量的误差并不敏感;设计实例证明了解析表达式的有效性,以及使用辅助光栅的记录光路的优越性。     

啁啾脉冲放大激光系统中展宽器色散的解析算法

时域色散精密控制是超短激光产生及其应用中的关键技术之一,它通过控制各波长的光程产生相对延迟从而改变脉冲宽度.展宽器是啁啾脉冲放大激光系统中对激光脉冲展宽的装置,基于光线追迹法研究光线在展宽器中的传输路径,可计算飞秒脉冲中各波长的光程,进而计算脉冲展宽量并应用于系统设计.由于展宽器的光程表达式复杂,直接对其求导获得色散表达式较困难,目前只能采用数值导数获得近似解,这在计算过程中会引入误差,不利于激光系统精确设计和优化.本文介绍了一种易实现的求解展宽器色散的解析算法,通过归纳展宽器光程表达式特点,引入四个基元函数,将光程表达式分解和反复代换,可得到高阶色散的精确解析值.本文首先对Martinez型展宽器重新光线追迹,获得与Offner型展宽器一致的相位表达式,其次通过解析算法获得了两种展宽器的精确高阶色散值,最后将解析算法与数值算法的结果进行了比较.该解析算法对于啁啾脉冲放大系统的参数设计具有实用价值.     

钕玻璃啁啾脉冲放大器产生百焦耳亚皮秒脉冲

以钕玻璃为增益介质研制了高能啁啾脉冲激光放大器系统,实验演示输出啁啾脉冲能量在百焦耳量级时,光谱宽度保持在4—6 nm.最大能量168 J,相应谱宽5.5 nm,中心波长1054 nm.压缩脉冲宽度最短710 fs. 关键词： 啁啾脉冲放大 钕玻璃 高能拍瓦     

Vector-dispersion compensation and pulse pedestal cancellation in a femtosecond nonlinear amplification fiber laser system

We report on a femtosecond nonlinear amplification fiber laser system using a vector-dispersion compressor, which consists of a transmission grating pair and multipass cell based Gires-Tournois interferometer mirrors. The mirror is designed with nearly zero group-delay dispersion and large negative third-order dispersion. As a result, the third-order dispersion of the compressor can be adjusted independently to compensate the nonlinear phase shift of amplified pulses to reduce the pulse pedestal. With this scheme, the system outputs 44 fs laser pulses with little wing at 26.6 W output average power and 531 nJ pulse energy, corresponding to 10.8 MW peak power.     

Implementation of the direct locking method for long-term carrier-envelope-phase stabilization of a grating-based kHz femtosecond laser

We have stabilized the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of amplified femtosecond laser pulses from a grating-based chirped-pulse amplification femtosecond laser by the direct locking method. Long-term CEP stabilization in the oscillator was achieved by employing a double-feedback loop to control both the pumping power and the cavity dispersion. Large CEP drift, induced during amplification, was compensated by adjusting the grating separation in the pulse compressor, and the CEP stabilization was maintained for four hours with a phase jitter of about 180 mrad. After pulse compression to 5.5-fs pulses in a filamentation pulse compressor, CEP-stabilized laser pulses were applied for high-harmonic generation to confirm the CEP stabilization.     

Optical terminal analysis of a multigrating tiled compressor in a PW-class CPA-laser

In the highest-power chirped-pulse amplification lasers, the pulse must be stretched in time, amplified, compressed in a grating compressor and subsequently focused by off-axis parabola to obtain a high peak power. In the optical terminal, the temporal and spatial effects of mismatched multigrating tiled compressor on the far-field pulse are critical factors to be analysed. In this paper, a k-space raytracing model is proposed for the temporal and spatial analyses of possible errors in a four-grating single-pass tiled compressor. The results show that the last grating affects mainly the partial focal spot, while the middle two gratings affect the temporal waveform, and the partial focal spot needs much higher error control than that in the temporal domain in a picosecond pulse compression.     

Study of dispersions on grating-pair compressor in the case of unparallel grooves

In this paper, we analyze the diffraction characteristics of grating-pair compressor in a chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) laser system, under the conditions that the grating surfaces are parallel while the grating grooves are unparallel. The optical path length of pulse passing through this system is derived. Then the second-, third- and fourth-order dispersions are calculated. The resulting dispersion relative errors compared with that the grating grooves, which are strictly parallel are shown. The vertical spectrum displacement in the output pulse has been calculated and shown quantitatively as function of the angle between the grooves. The results also show that gratings with low groove density are superior to that of high density ones, if the groove misalignment is unavoidable.     

Electron-yield enhancement in a laser-wakefield accelerator driven by asymmetric laser pulses

The effect of asymmetric laser pulses on electron yield from a laser wakefield accelerator has been experimentally studied using >10(19) cm(-3) plasmas and a 10 TW, >45 fs, Ti:Al2O3 laser. The laser pulse shape was controlled through nonlinear chirp with a grating pair compressor. Pulses (76 fs FWHM) with a steep rise and positive chirp were found to significantly enhance the electron yield compared to pulses with a gentle rise and negative chirp. Theory and simulation show that fast rising pulses can generate larger amplitude wakes that seed the growth of the self-modulation instability, and that frequency chirp is of minimal importance for the experimental parameters.     

高功率全光纤啁啾脉冲放大激光系统

采用基于非线性偏振旋转原理的光纤被动锁模激光器作为主振荡器。输出信号脉冲的重复频率为30MHz,脉冲半高全宽为265fs。信号脉冲通过全光纤啁啾脉冲激光放大系统展宽至100ps后,经过1级芯径10μm的光纤预放大器和1级芯径50μm的光纤功率放大器将脉冲平均功率放大至10W,斜率效率41.5%。输出脉冲经光栅压缩器将脉宽压缩至594fs。     

66 W average power from a microjoule-class sub-100 fs fiber oscillator

Performance scaling of passively mode-locked ultrashort-pulse fiber oscillators in terms of average power, peak power, and pulse energy is demonstrated. A very-large-mode-area fiber laser in an all-positive group-velocity-dispersion ring cavity configuration with intracavity spectral filter, mode-locked by nonlinear polarization evolution, emits 66 W of average power at 76 MHz repetition rate, corresponding to 0.9 μJ pulse energy. The pulses are dechirped to 91 fs outside the cavity with an average power of 60 W remaining after the compressor. The generated pulse peak power is as high as 7 MW.     

Sub-5-ps, multimegawatt peak-power pulses from a fiber-amplified and optically compressed passively Q-switched microchip laser

We report on high-energy picosecond pulse generation from a passively Q-switched and fiber-amplified microchip laser system. Initially, the utilized microchip lasers produce pulses with durations of around 100 ps at 1064 nm central wavelength. These pulses are amplified to energies exceeding 100 μJ, simultaneously chirped and spectrally broadened by self-phase modulation using a double stage amplifier based on single-mode LMA photonic crystal fibers at repetition rates of up to 1 MHz. Subsequently, the pulse duration of chirped pulses is reduced by means of nonlinear pulse compression to durations of 2.7 ps employing a conventional grating compressor and 4.7 ps using a compact compressor based on a chirped volume Bragg grating.