双波长Yb∶YAG连续激光理论及实验研究

报道了Yb∶YAG双波长激光振荡阈值的理论结果,实验获得了连续双波长激光输出.实验中,采用紧凑的平凹腔结构、940nm光纤耦合LD端面泵浦方式,Yb∶YAG晶体作为激光晶体,采用10%、15%和20%的输出耦合镜,分别实现了单波长和双波长激光输出,在最高泵浦功率为20 W时,输出耦合率分别为10%、20%,最高获得3.94W的1 050nm激光和3.40 W的1 030nm激光,对应的光光转换效率分别为19.7%和17.0%;当输出耦合率为15%、泵浦功率为11.7 W时,获得0.79 W的双波长激光,对应的光光转换效率为6.8%,功率比为1∶1.3,通过光栅光谱仪测量得到双波长谱线中心分别为1 030.31nm和1 047.50nm;当1 030nm激光功率为3.0 W时,30min内输出功率RMS稳定性优于0.18%.该实验结果与理论分析相吻合,可应用于设计稳定可靠的掺Yb双波长激光器.     

国产全光纤结构激光器实现245 W高功率激光输出

 以国产掺镱光纤为增益介质,利用国产泵浦源和光纤器件,构建了主振荡功率放大（MOPA）结构的全国产大功率全光纤激光器。激光器包括10 W种子激光器和高功率放大器两部分。在注入最大泵浦功率为356 W时,获得了245 W波长1 080 nm激光的稳定输出,光-光效率为69%。激光器单次连续出光时间约30 min,功率稳定性在1%以内。目前激光器输出功率受限于泵浦功率,增加泵浦源的数目有望进一步提高输出功率。     

一种基于增益调制技术的全光纤化脉冲Yb光纤激光器

以波长为975 nm的半导体激光器作为泵浦源,周期性地脉冲泵浦一个包含Yb掺杂光纤和光纤光栅对的Yb光纤激光器,实现了基于增益调制技术的全光纤化高功率Yb光纤激光器的稳定脉冲输出.在50 kHz重频下,采用20 W的泵浦功率和2.4 μs的泵浦脉冲宽度,获得了1 060 nm波长脉冲宽度仅100 ns的稳定脉冲激光输出,单脉冲激光能量约为20 μJ.以此作为脉冲激光种子进行功率放大,获得了性能稳定的全光纤结构高功率脉冲激光输出,放大后单脉冲能量超过200 μJ,激光放大器斜率效率达到60%.     

全光纤激光器实现kW级功率输出

 搭建了一台全光纤结构的光纤激光器。采用双端泵浦结构,共有36个泵浦输入端。在使用其中的24个泵浦输入端,泵浦功率为1 477 W时,获得了1 008 W高功率输出,光光转换效率为68%。输出激光的中心波长为1 082 nm,半波全宽为3 nm。目前激光器输出功率受限于泵浦功率,增加泵浦源的数目有望进一步提高输出功率。     

双端泵浦保偏光纤激光器

 以两台808 nm半导体激光器LD1和LD2为泵浦源,对光纤激光器双端泵浦进行了研究,获得了6.5 W的激光输出。实验分别测出了LD1和LD2半导体激光器单端泵浦和双端泵浦时的输出功率,对双端泵浦输出功率与单端泵浦功率之和进行了比较,利用双端泵浦提高了泵浦效率和输出激光功率。同时测量了输出激光的偏振度,通过计算得到双端泵浦输出激光的偏振度为0.5。     

200W级高亮度半导体激光器光纤耦合模块

光纤激光器系统需要高可靠性、高亮度、高功率光纤耦合输出二极管激光器模块作为泵浦源。基于mini-bar二极管激光器芯片,采用光束精密准直技术、自由空间合束技术来获得高亮度、高功率光纤耦合输出,针对光纤芯径为200μm、数值孔径为0.22的多模光纤,开展了线偏振二极管激光光纤耦合实验,实验结果表明:光纤稳定输出功率达280 W,对应亮度为5.87 MW/(cm2·sr),电-光效率为45.0%。采用偏振合束技术,光纤预期输出功率可达500 W,对应亮度超过10 MW/(cm2·sr)。该方法可应用于研制数百瓦级高亮度二极管激光光纤耦合输出激光器模块。     

国产大功率全光纤主振荡功率放大器

 以国产掺Yb光纤为增益介质,利用国产泵浦源和光纤器件,构建了主振荡功率放大结构的全国产大功率全光纤激光器。在注入的最大泵浦功率为75 W时,获得了52.5 W,1 080 nm激光的稳定输出,光-光效率为70%。实验结果表明,提高泵浦功率可获得更高的输出功率。     

全光纤高功率被动锁模掺铥光纤激光器

利用非线性光环形镜(NOLM)的可饱和吸收特性实现了可自启动的2μm全光纤高能量被动锁模掺铥光纤激光器。当泵浦功率大于3W时,激光器工作在连续或不稳定脉冲运转状态;泵浦功率达到4.69W后,输出为自启动锁模脉冲,重复频率4.26MHz,中心波长2 061.5nm,光谱半极大宽度18.1nm,平均输出功率8.8mW;继续增加泵浦功率到最大值7.56W,可以得到中心波长2 062.2nm、光谱半极大宽度17.1nm、斜率效率为6.2%、脉冲宽度和能量分别为424fs和65.6nJ的稳定锁模脉冲。这是目前已报道的在未经放大情况下脉冲能量最高的2μm锁模脉冲光纤激光器。     

67.9W高功率全光纤白光超连续谱激光器

利用自主研发的全光纤被动锁模激光器以及高功率光纤模场匹配器,将145 W的皮秒脉冲耦合进国产光子晶体光纤,实现了67.9 W的高功率全光纤结构白光超连续谱输出,光谱范围为500~1700nm,10dB光谱宽度大于1000nm(泵浦波长除外)。整个激光器系统的光-光(半导体泵浦源输出激光-超连续谱输出激光)转化效率达到33.8%。     

长波段半导体激光泵浦光纤激光器实现2 kW功率输出

半导体激光（LD）泵浦的高功率光纤激光器具有效率高、体积小、重量轻、稳定性好等优点,在工业加工等诸多领域都有着广泛的应用。为了提高泵浦光吸收率,传统光纤激光器常用915 nm和976 nm波段的LD作为激光的泵浦源。在该类LD泵浦的光纤激光器中,由于量子亏损和泵浦吸收系数相对较高,光纤激光器的热致模式不稳定（TMI）阈值相对较低。为了提高量子效率和潜在的TMI阈值,提出采用大于1 010 nm波段的LD直接泵浦光纤激光器,产生高量子效率激光。搭建了振荡放大一体化的全光纤激光器,采用总泵浦功率为2.56 kW的1 010 nm波段LD泵浦,首次获得输出功率2.05 kW、光束质量M2约1.7的激光。后续将通过进一步增大泵浦功率、优化光纤特性以实现更高功率、更优光束质量的光纤激光输出。     

基于像散与理想光源成像原理的高亮度半导体激光器光纤耦合设计方法

运用像散原理和理想光源成像原理,讨论了半导体激光器消像散设计.提出了一种基于消像散的高亮度半导体激光器光纤耦合系统的设计方法.以波长为808 nm,输出功率为10 W的半导体激光器的光纤耦合为例,给出了详细的计算方法和设计步骤.结果表明:采用该方法将半导体激光器光束耦合入数值孔径为0.22,芯径为50 μm的光纤中,耦合后输出功率为9.712 W,耦合效率为97.12%,功率密度为1.1224×10⁶ W/cm².该方法不仅原理简单,而且设计的耦合系统耦合效率高、体积小,具有较强的实用价值.     

All-fiber clad-pumped Tm3+-doped fiber amplifier using high power fiber combiner

The diode laser (LD) clad-pumped 1947.6 nm continuous wave (CW) Tm³⁺-doped fiber amplifier is reported using the master oscillation power amplifier (MOPA) method. The injected seed laser is provided by an all-fiber LD-clad-pumped Tm³⁺-doped single-mode fiber laser, which has a nearly 2.4 W maximal output power and 0.1 nm ultra-narrow linewidth based on the intracore reflection FBG. Using the 25/400 μm double-clad LMA Tm³⁺-doped fiber as the gain fiber, the output maximal output power is 30.6 W from the fiber amplifier, with a slope efficiency of 39.1% respected to the LD total output power. A high power multi-mode fiber combiner is used to couple high power LD light into the gain fiber. The output wavelength is also located at 1947.6 nm, with the slightly expanded laser linewidth of 0.2 nm.     

高功率高效率光纤耦合半导体激光模块研制

采用光束整形和空间合束的方法,研制出高功率、高效率多阵列光纤耦合半导体激光模块。将波长为976nm连续工作的5个标准半导体阵列,通过对快轴进行准直和快慢轴光束旋转的方式进行光束整形,准直后进行空间合束,经耦合透镜聚焦,耦合入芯径400μm、数值孔径0.22的光纤。测量结果显示:光纤的出光功率最大可达到327 W,光纤耦合效率大于93.6%。     

880nm半导体激光主动照明光纤耦合模块

为降低半导体激光主动照明红曝,选择波长880 nm大功率半导体激光器作为新型激光主动照明成像系统光源。根据光纤耦合过程光参数积不变原理,研制出波长880 nm大功率半导体激光器阵列单光纤耦合模块,利用光纤匀光作用使激光光束匀化整圆后用于激光主动照明。首次在波长880 nm大功率半导体激光器上采用阶梯反射镜光束整形方法,使激光光参数积与光纤匹配,激光高效耦合进入纤芯400μm、数值孔径0.22的光纤。室温条件下光纤耦合模块连续输出功率44.9 W,电光转化效率35%,波长880 nm大功率半导体激光器阵列光纤耦合模块,不仅其红曝小而且对应CMOS图像传感器光谱响应度较高,系统成像质量好。     

Top-hat beam Tm<Superscript>3+</Superscript>-doped fiber laser using an intracavity abrupt taper

The top-hat beam clad-pumped Tm³⁺-doped fiber laser was realized simply using an intracavity multi-mode abrupt taper. The ratio of the flat-top diameter to the spot diameter reaches 53%, with a small intensity variation less than 6%, and the top-hat beam’s half-divergence angle is only 5.3°. The fiber laser has a maximal output power of 5 W with slope efficiency of 39.7%, pumped by the 792 nm diode laser (LD). The abrupt taper is directly made on the multi-mode double-clad Tm³⁺-doped fiber near the fiber laser output end with the 0.45 ratio of taper waist diameter to fiber clad diameter, and this fiber end 4% Fresnel reflection is used to be the output coupler. The fiber laser’s high reflective coupler is an intracore multi-mode FBG, which is directly written into the multi-mode Tm³⁺-doped fiber core using femtosecond laser and phase mask, at the other fiber end. The abrupt taper has no obviously influence on the fiber laser output power, and the output laser spectrum.     

Beam combining of a high-power laser diode bar on a temperature gradient heat sink

A new wavelength beam combining technique for a high-power laser diode bar by using a temperature gradient heat sink has been proposed. The thermal controlling principle of the temperature heat sink has been discussed. It has been proved by experiment that the linear temperature distribution, which generates linear wavelength spread of the output beams from a LD bar, can be obtained by introducing a temperature gradient heat sink and the output beams can be focused into a relative small spot by using the Czerny-Turner beam shaping system.     

A long uniform taper applied to an all-fiber Tm<Superscript>3+</Superscript> doped double-clad fiber laser

A long uniform taper fabricated on a large mode area Tm³⁺-doped double-clad fiber laser, which was clad-pumped by a laser diode (LD), was found to be an effective wavelength filter while improving the output beam quality and narrowing the line-width significantly. The long uniform taper was fabricated directly on the multi-mode Tm³⁺-doped fiber by heating and stretching method, and located several centimeters before the output fiber end. By slightly bending the taper section, the output laser spectrum was left with only one peak with a line-width less than 0.5 nm, compared to the multi-peak spectrum with a 5 nm line-width before tapering, indicating that the multi-mode fiber could produce quasi-single wavelength output with a long uniform taper. The beam quality factor M ² declined from 6.6 to 2.6 compared. Only a slight decrease in slope efficiency, from 19.2 to 17.5%, was observed. The main output wavelength had a blue shift of 8 nm.     

高亮度半导体激光阵列光纤耦合模块

利用2只915 nm半导体激光短列阵作为子模块,设计并研制出连续输出的高亮度光纤耦合模块。首先对每个半导体激光短列阵进行光束整形,从而提高它的光束质量;然后采用空间复用技术将这两个半导体激光短列阵出射的激光在光参数积小的方向上叠加,并利用偏振复用技术进一步提高光束质量;最后利用单片非球面透镜将激光聚焦到芯径为100 μm、数值孔径为0.22的光纤中。测量结果显示:在工作电流为52.5 A时,聚焦镜焦平面的光斑尺寸为105.4 μm;耦合后测量光纤出光功率可达72.6 W,对应亮度为6.08 MW/(cm²·sr),模块的电光转换效率为42.2%。最后测量了模块在不同驱动电流时的光谱,证明该模块的散热性能良好。     

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     

Multi-peak output Tm-doped silica fiber laser based on femtosecond-written multi-mode fiber Bragg grating

The all-fiber Tm-doped double-clad laser was reported, incorporating a phase mask scanning technology writing FBG directly into the Tm-doped multi-mode fiber core as cavity mirror, using 800 nm femtosecond laser sources. A fiber grating of 12 mm length was realized with a period of 1.35 μm. Pumped by the 793 nm pigtail fiber output LD, the continuous wave (CW) power could scale to 25.4 W at 1.96 μm with the slope efficiency of 38% respected to the LD output power. The output laser spectrum exhibited multi-peak, due to the multi-mode FBG reflective characteristic.