端侧面组合抽运DPL热透镜效应研究

通过数值计算发现：在端侧面组合抽运DPL中,晶体横截面上的温度分布接近于轴对称分布,并且端面抽运功率占有率越大,温度分布越接近于轴对称分布。将端侧面组合抽运DPL中的热效用等效薄透镜近似,给出了等效热透镜焦距的计算方法,分析了组合抽运引起的热透镜效应对基横模振荡光的光斑尺寸和衍射损耗的影响。在总抽运功率一定的情况下,端面抽运功率占有率的变化对热透镜焦距有一定的影响,占有率越大,热透镜焦距越长。提高端面抽运功率占有率,可在一定程度上减小热透镜效应对振荡光束尺寸和衍射损耗的影响。     

不同抽运光分布下端面抽运固体激光器中晶体的端面温度分布研究

为了研究不同的抽运光分布对晶体端面温度场的影响，提出一种平顶光的归类方法，并依据所提出的平顶光的归类方法划分出圆柱光、高斯光和平顶光.重点研究了圆柱光、高斯光和平顶光在不同的功率和不同的焦斑半径下端面温度分布.发现在相同的抽运功率和相同的光斑半径下圆柱光抽运时晶体的端面温度最高，平顶光次之，高斯光最小的重要结论， 说明抽运光的分布严重影响晶体端面的温度场.最后讨论了端面温度场引起的热效应对DPL光束质量的影响，发现端面热效应引起端面热透镜等效曲率半径减小,从而引起束腰半径的减小. 热效应引起热透镜等效曲率     

不同抽运光分布下端面抽运固体激光器中晶体的端面温度分布研究

为了研究不同的抽运光分布对晶体端面温度场的影响,提出一种平顶光的归类方法,并依据所提出的平顶光的归类方法划分出圆柱光、高斯光和平顶光.重点研究了圆柱光、高斯光和平顶光在不同的功率和不同的焦斑半径下端面温度分布.发现在相同的抽运功率和相同的光斑半径下圆柱光抽运时晶体的端面温度最高,平顶光次之,高斯光最小的重要结论, 说明抽运光的分布严重影响晶体端面的温度场.最后讨论了端面温度场引起的热效应对DPL光束质量的影响,发现端面热效应引起端面热透镜等效曲率半径减小,从而引起束腰半径的减小. 热效应引起热透镜等效曲率 关键词： 圆柱光 平顶光 端面抽运 温度场     

粗糙热传导表面下激光介质的热效应

在考虑激光介质与热沉不完全接触导热的情况下,用面热源自适应调整算法计算了激光介质的温度场,研究了其热效应.表面附近相位差存在起伏且深入一定深度使热效应复杂化.随抽运功率的增大,表面附近相位差的起伏增强,而起伏深度变化不明显;接触面积增大,相位差起伏减小,起伏的深度有所减小.抽运功率较小时,热致衍射损耗随抽运功率的增大近似线性增大,高斯光半径越大,增大的斜率越大,当抽运功率增加到一定程度时,热致衍射损耗增大的趋势减缓,半径大的减缓较明显.在抽运光功率变化范围内,半径大的高斯光热致衍射损耗大于半径小的.高斯光半径较小时,接触面积对热致衍射损耗的影响不明显,当高斯光半径较大时,接触面积减小热致衍射损耗增大.     

线阵激光二极管侧面抽运Nd∶YAG激光器特性研究

依据四能级系统速率方程 ,推导出了多横模振荡固体激光器输出与输入参量的关系。对二极管抽运固体激光器中线阵激光二极管三向对称侧面抽运结构 ,计算了抽运光强分布 ,并就激光器的阈值抽运功率、近阈值条件下的斜率效率、输出功率和光束质量等与抽运参量的关系 ,进行了数值计算。由计算结果看出 ,线阵激光二极管侧面抽运Nd∶YAG激光器中晶体半径和抽运光束腰半径是影响输出激光功率和光束质量的主要因素 ,并通过在谐振腔中加小孔选模 ,使光束质量得到明显改善。选择了一组三向侧面抽运结构参量进行了实验验证 ,实验结果与理论计算一致。     

线阵激光二极管侧面抽运Nd:YAG激光器特性研究

依据四能级系统速率方程,推导出了多横模振荡固体激光器输出与输入参量的关系。对二极管抽运固体激光器中线阵激光二极管三向对称侧面抽运结构,计算了抽运光强分布,并就激光器的阈值抽运功率、近阈值条件下的斜率效率、输出功率和光束质量等与抽运参量的关系,进行了数值计算。由计算结果看出,线阵激光二极管侧面抽运Nd：YAG激光器中晶体半径和抽运光束腰半径是影响输出激光功率和光束质量的主要因素,并通过在谐振腔中加小孔选模,使光束质量得到明显改善。选择了一组三向侧面抽运结构参量进行了实验验证,实验结果与理论计算一致。     

部分抽运的板条激光器的热效应分析

基于热传导方程和高斯赛德尔数值计算方法,对部分抽运板条激光器的温度分布、热应力和热致折射率变化等热效应进行了详细分析,并与单侧抽运及双侧抽运方式进行了比较。结果表明,设计合理的部分抽运板条激光器,可以获得较高的抽运效率,其热效应相比于均匀抽运的情况并没有显著劣化,不论是采用锯齿形传播方式还是直线传播方式的激光器都可以获得较好的光束质量,当一束高斯激光直线经过板条晶体中部时,光束质量因子为1.4,若采用锯齿形传播方式,则光束质量因子可提高到1.1。     

脉冲激光二极管侧面抽运Nd∶YAG激光器晶体时变热效应

采用数值计算的方法,对脉冲激光二极管三向侧面抽运固体激光器中,激光晶体的温度场时变分布进行了计算. 分析了三向侧面抽运情况下晶体内光强分布,在此基础上,采用有限元法,以脉冲激光二极管侧面抽运Nd∶YAG激光器为例,对单脉冲过程中晶体温度分布及其影响因素进行分析. 结果表明,晶体升温过程受到抽运条件以及散热条件的影响,但是主要受到抽运条件即抽运光强度和光束半径的影响,降温过程受到晶体热物性参数和晶体半径以及散热条件的影响. 当晶体温度达到周期性分布后,由于晶体径向温度梯度的周期性变化,引起通过晶体的平面光波的中心和边缘光线相对光程差也随时间作周期性变化. 关键词： 激光二极管侧面抽运固体激光器 热效应 有限元法 时变过程     

脉冲激光二极管侧面抽运Nd:YAG激光器晶体时变热效应

采用数值计算的方法,对脉冲激光二极管三向侧面抽运固体激光器中,激光晶体的温度场时变分布进行了计算. 分析了三向侧面抽运情况下晶体内光强分布,在此基础上,采用有限元法,以脉冲激光二极管侧面抽运Nd:YAG激光器为例,对单脉冲过程中晶体温度分布及其影响因素进行分析. 结果表明,晶体升温过程受到抽运条件以及散热条件的影响,但是主要受到抽运条件即抽运光强度和光束半径的影响,降温过程受到晶体热物性参数和晶体半径以及散热条件的影响. 当晶体温度达到周期性分布后,由于晶体径向温度梯度的周期性变化,引起通过晶体的平面光波的中心和边缘光线相对光程差也随时间作周期性变化.     

高功率端面抽运Nd:YVO4固体激光器模匹配的研究

研究了端面抽运Ｎｄ：ＹＶＯ４固体激光器激光晶体内基模半径与抽运光斑半径的匹配。晶体的Ｎｄ掺杂原子数分数分别为０．５％和２％,抽运功率分别为１０Ｗ和１４Ｗ。结果表明：ＴＥＭ００模输出功率对ｗ１／ｗｐａ在低于１的很大范围内的变化不敏感,不存在一个确定的最佳ｗ１／ｗｐａ值;在相对很小的ｗ１／ｗｐａ情形,仍可获得高效单一的ＴＥＭ００模输出,在这种情况下热透镜球差具有限模孔径的作用。     

Influence of spherical aberrations on the performance of dynamically stable resonators

Spherical aberrations of thermal lens of the active media are severe when the solid state lasers are strongly pumped. The aberrations influence the mode profile, the diffraction loss, the output power and other laser beam properties, especially for a dynamically stable resonator with large TEM₀₀-mode volume. Self-consistent modes in a resonator with aberrations are calculated using Fox-Li diffraction iterative algorithm. There are side lobes with the fundamental mode when the spherical aberration is introduced, hence the beam quality is deteriorated. The calculated results agree well with the experimental data. The beam filling factor plays an important role in the design of a laser system. The optimum value of the beam filling factor should be determined by the experimental results according to the spherical aberration effect.     

The dynamic stability resonant cavity design of two rod Nd:YAG laser

The stability of the higher output power with high-quality beams is very important parameter in material processing. This paper presents using the S parameter and Gauss beam parameters matching to design efficient resonant cavity of two-rod Nd:YAG. The fundamental mode beam radius in rod, fundamental mode beam radius on the mirror, beam quality factor, and the value of the degree of the symmetry of the TEM00 mode volume as a function of the between neighbor rods distance, laser rod end face to mirror distance, and input power are simulated. The design method of resonant cavity is illustrated and compared with previously published experimental measurements for different pump power and the length of the cavity parameters and a good agreement has been found.     

Influence of pump beam size on laser diode end-pumped solid state lasers

Based on space-dependent rate equation, the lowest threshold input power for diode end-pumped solid state lasers is obtained for pump spot size w_p → 0. However, when the pump beam waist is decreased, the far-field half-angle increases due to the same beam quality, which will influence the match between the pump volume and mode volume. Most importantly, when the pump beam waist is decreased, the temperature and temperature gradient in the laser rod would be very high due to the resulting heat, which would cause material distortion, variation of refractive index, instability of laser resonator etc. We analyze the temperature distributions with different pump beam sizes and conclude that the condition w_p ≈ w₀ (the radius of the laser beam at the laser rod) is often taken as a rough guide to the optimum case.     

300 W continuous-wave operation of a diode edge-pumped, hybrid composite Yb:YAG microchip laser

300 W continuous-wave operation of a diode edge-pumped, hybrid (single-crystal/ceramic) composite,Yb3+:YAG microchip laser with a 5 mm diameter and 300 microm thickness single-crystal core uniformly bonded to a water-cooled heat sink by a new Au-Sn soldering system has been demonstrated. The beam quality factor M2 follows the mode mismatch between the core and the fundamental mode and was improved to 17 with a maximum output power of 230 W. A thermally induced convex mirror with a spherical radius of curvature ranging from -2.5 to -1.5 m was observed; the radius of curvature decreases through thermal deformation of the microchip as the pump power increases.     

超高斯光束抽运调Q固体激光器仿真模型研究

仿真计算一直是研究激光器的重要手段,而激光理论是仿真计算的基础.虽然半经典激光理论能够精确地描述激光的产生过程,但是其复杂性导致仿真需要庞大的计算资源和计算时间.为了能够更加高效地对激光器进行仿真,提出了一种调Q固体激光器的仿真模型.基于此模型,研究了影响主动调Q激光产生过程的因素.这些因素包括抽运功率、抽运光分布和模式竞争.仿真计算结果与对照实验测量数据相符合,说明了模型的有效性.     

双包层光纤激光器的受激拉曼散射与热应力

 建立了高功率掺镱双包层光纤激光器的速率方程模型与热应力模型，对影响受激拉曼散射效应和热应力效应的关键参数（如纤芯半径、光纤长度、泵浦波长、泵浦方式）进行了数值模拟。结果表明:对于较小的纤芯半径，光纤内的斯托克斯光功率较大且增长迅速，因此增加纤芯半径能有效减弱受激拉曼散射效应；减小光纤长度能提高受激拉曼散射的阈值，而纤芯的热应力也增大，因此在不出现热应力引起光纤断裂的情况下，可以减小光纤长度以提高输出功率；采用976 nm波段泵浦源能提高输出功率，降低热应力的影响；两端均匀泵浦方式可以有效降低纤芯热应力，同时维持高功率输出。     

Thermal lens spectrometry under excitation of a divergent pump beam

Thermal lens spectrometry (TLS) under excitation of a divergent pump beam is discussed in both conventional and microscopic TLS instruments. A refined thermal lens (TL) model was proposed for calculating the TL signal of a “finite TL element.” Experiments as well as comparison with numerical simulations demonstrated that the effective sample length for a certain pump beam profile was about six times the confocal distance of the pump beam for laser-excited case and 1.5 mm for incoherent light source-excited case. For laser-excited conventional TLS instrument or thermal lens microscope (TLM), an empirical formula of the optimum pump beam waist radius for maximum detection sensitivity was obtained at a given sample length. At larger pump beam waist radius of 7 μm, the TL signal was found 2.5 times lower compared to the diffraction limit; however, the resulting two orders of magnitude lower power density in the sample could be quite desirable for the detection of photolabile analytes. By investigating the influence of a finite TL element on the TL signal, we found that an optimal distance between the probe beam waist and the sample was needed to assure the maximum detection sensitivity and good response linearity. Under the optimal detection scheme, limit of detection of the laser-excited TLM at 4 mW power was evaluated to be 8.6 × 10^?9 M for 100-μm-thick ferroin solution, corresponding to an absorbance of 9.5 × 10^?7 absorbance units.     

Diode-pumped Tm:LuAG laser at room temperature

The lasing characteristics of Tm：LuAG at room temperature are reported. The maximum output power at 2.023-μm wavelength is 4.91 W and the slope efficiency is 25.39%. The mode matching between pump mode and laser mode is optimized by changing the pump beam waist radius and its location. Different output couplers are used to realize the optimal laser output. The relationship between operation temperature and output power is also discussed.