用于光生毫米波的双频激光放大特性

采用激光二极管端面抽运的双纵模Nd∶YVO4微片激光器作为种子光源,双端面抽运的Nd∶YVO4行波放大器作为功率放大器,获得了大频差、高功率双频激光信号输出。分析了放大过程中光谱匹配对双频激光输出特性的影响。结果表明,随种子光入射功率从小到大变化,放大倍率呈起伏减小的趋势;受到放大器增益带宽的限制,放大后双频激光频差小于种子光频差。当种子源和放大器的抽运电流分别为14.5A和40.0A时,最终获得了功率为2.38 W,频差为47.7GHz的双频激光信号输出。     

用预泵浦技术实现Cr4+、Nd3+双掺YAG激光器自调Q可控输出

对LD泵浦Cr⁴⁺、Nd³⁺双掺YAG自调Q激光器进行了研究,在连续泵浦和脉冲泵浦下获得了1.064μm调Q偏振激光脉冲输出,脉冲宽度(FWHM)为30ns,单脉冲能量为0.5μJ.采用直流预泵浦技术使Q开关时间的不确定度从×10ms减小到5μs左右,并使激光Q脉冲重复率从1kHz提高到近17kHz,该方法也同样适用于其它被动调Q激光器.     

热透镜的球差效应对大基模体积激光谐振腔模式的影响

固体激光器在强抽运的条件下,激光晶体热透镜的球差效应是不容忽视的,尤其是在大基模体积的动态稳定腔中,会影响谐振腔的振荡模式,进而影响腔内损耗和输出功率.通过Fox-Li的衍射迭代算法,分析了谐振腔的自再现模,表明在热透镜球差效应作用下,基模的光强分布出现了旁瓣,并由此带来了光束质量的下降,最后通过实验结果验证了理论分析,指出光束填充因子是激光器设计的一个重要因素,其最佳值需要根据球差效应的强弱,通过实验的方法来确定. 关键词： 热透镜 球差效应 谐振腔模式     

Achieving single-lobed far-field patterns of broad area laser diode with external cavity feedback

We demonstrate a technique for single transverse mode operation of high-power broad area laser diode (BAL). In the experiment, the HR mirror is used as an external cavity mirror and the grating is used as a wavelength selective component. By tiling the HR mirror and the grating, the number of transverse modes oscillating in the cavity can be limited and the spectral bandwidth of the laser diode can be reduced. A single-lobed near diffraction-limited laser beam with the beam divergence (FWHM) of 0.43°, the spectral line-width of 0.7 nm and the output power of 350 mW are obtained. With the feedback, the power density of the output laser beam is increased 6 times in comparison with the free running.     

切削用量对铝靶表面质量的影响

采用单点金刚石切削技术，完成了对ICF实验用铝靶的切削加工，重点研究了切削用量对加工表面质量的影响。实验结果表明:采用较小的进给速度，较大的主轴转速能够获得较低的表面粗糙度，切削深度对表面质量影响较小。通过Form Talysurf 表面轮廓仪测量，结果表明表面粗糙度小于50 nm。     

高功率全固态紫外四倍频激光器

 通过对谐振腔腔镜失调灵敏度的计算,分析了声光调Q开关位置对调Q脉冲输出稳定性的影响。计算表明:Q开关放置在输出镜一侧会使脉冲序列更加稳定。在基模输出的条件下,获得了峰值功率为几十kW的调Q脉冲输出。采用BBO晶体对Nd:YAG激光器四倍频,获得了1.9 W的266 nm紫外激光输出。     

Influence of spherical aberrations on fundamental mode beam quality under different laser resonators

Spherical aberrations of the thermal lens of the active media are severe when solid state lasers are strongly pumped. The fundamental mode profile deteriorates due to the aberrations. Self-consistent modes of a resonator with aberrations are calculated by using the Fox--Li diffraction iterative algorithm. Calculation results show that the aberration induced fundamental mode beam quality deterioration depends greatly on the resonator design. The tolerance of a flat--flat resonator to the aberration coefficient is about 30λ in the middle of stability, where λ is the wavelength of laser beam. But for a dynamically stable resonator, 2λ of spherical aberration will create diffraction loss of more than 40%, if inappropriate design criteria are used. A birefringence compensated laser resonator with two Nd:YAG rods is experimentally studied. The experimental data are in quite good agreement with simulation results.