激光测深系统中大动态范围压缩技术的实验研究

分析了分通道、距离选通、光电倍增管变增益、正交偏振等多种技术相结合的方法,用以改善机载激光测深系统中激光回波的动态范围。并研制了相应的变增益部件,开展了水池试验以及海上现场试验。试验结果表明,多种方法相结合的技术可对水底信号的动态范围进行有效压缩,满足机载测深系统对浅海测量的动态范围要求;但正交偏振技术对信号测量压缩的改善效果并不明显。报道了试验过程中出现的光电倍增管后脉冲对水深测量的影响。对动态范围压缩技术进一步研究提供了有价值的参考。     

基于法珀标准具的激光稳频方法理论研究

介绍了使用法珀(Fabry-Perot,F-P)标准具作为频率标准的三种稳频方法,并且进行理论分析,分别得出了各种方法的鉴频曲线.通过对鉴频曲线进行比较发现边频锁定技术具有斜率大、信号强、控制范围广的优点,优于另外两种方法,是一种理想的激光稳频技术.     

固体热容激光器冷却方式的数值模拟

 固体热容激光器连续运转一段时间后，需要进行冷却，以进行下一次运转，因此冷却速度直接影响着热容激光器运转的效率和实用性。从热传导方程出发，以沉积热为内热源模型，利用有限元分析方法对激光二极管阵列从4个方向对称泵浦的板条Nd:GGG激光介质的温度场和和热应力场进行了数值模拟。并对冷却阶段分别采用过冷气体、水循环、喷雾、相变冷却方式时的介质温度和应力随时间变化过程进行了模拟。结果表明在相同条件下采用相变冷却方式能在较短时间内将介质冷却到初始温度。     

Polarization-locked VCSEL with PM fiber pigtail for quantum communication

Quantum communication is a new technology requiring a stable and reliable laser source for communication security. A new kind of polarization-locked vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with polarization maintaining (PM) fiber pigtail is fabricated as a decoy state laser source. The VCSEL is packaged in a standard butterfly box integrated with thermoelectric coder (TEC) and thermistor. The optical pulse width of full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) is smaller than 400 ps with a 100-MHz on/off modulation frequency. The results reveal that modulation range is better than 4. Moreover, the polarization is stable, and the power extinction ratio is larger than 25. The center wavelength is 850 nm, and the SMSR is better than 40 dB.     

Single-frequency high-energy Yb-doped pulsed all-fiber laser

A single-frequency pulsed all-fiber laser with a master oscillator power amplifier configuration is presented. While maintaining the properties of single mode, linear polarization, and narrow linewidth, a single-pulse energy of 260 μJ and over 500-W peak power is experimentally demonstrated at 1 kHz by employing tensile strain gradient and pulse-shape control methods. In addition, approximately 55 dB of optical signal to noise ratio is also achieved.     

Highly efficient electro-optically Q-switched 473 nm blue laser

An external frequency doubling electro-optically Q-switched neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet(Nd:YAG) 473 nm blue laser was demonstrated. With absorbed pump energy of 48 mJ at 100 Hz repetition rate, about 2 mJ of 473 nm blue laser pulse energy was achieved by cascade frequency doubling. The second harmonic conversion efficiency was 64.5%, and overall optical-optical efficiency was 4.2%, respectively. The blue laser pulse width was less than 10 ns, and beam quality factor was less than 2.4.     

Eye-safe,single-frequency pulsed all-fiber laser for Doppler wind lidar

A single-frequency pulsed erbium-doped fiber(EDF) laser with master-oscillator power-amplifier configuration at 1 533 nm is developed. A short-cavity,erbium-doped phosphate glass fiber laser is utilized as a seeder laser with a linewidth of 5 kHz and power of 40 mW. The seeder laser is modulated to be a pulse laser with a repetition rate of 10 kHz and pulse duration of 500 ns. The amplifier consists of two pre-amplifiers and one main amplifier. The detailed characteristics of the spectrum and linewidth of the amplifiers are presented. A pulse energy of 116 μJ and a linewidth of 1.1 MHz are obtained. This laser can be a candidate transmitter for an all-fiber Doppler wind lidar in the boundary layer.     

High repetition rate Tm：Ho：LuLiF master-oscillator and Tm-doped fiber power-amplifier system

A high repetition rate Tm:Ho:LuLiF master-oscillator and polarization-maintaining (PM) Tm-doped fiber power-amplifier system is presented.A 11.3-kHz,0.4-nm line width,0.89-W Tm:Ho:LuLiF seed laser is developed.Using a two-stage PM Tm-doped fiber power amplifier system,32.4-W output power is obtained with 0.4-nm line width at a central wavelength of 2058.5 nm,corresponding to 0.66-W seed laser.The laser spectrum and pulse profile are measured.     

Diode-side-pumped AO Q-switched Tm,Ho:LuLF laser

A diode-side-pumped Tm,Ho:LuLiF laser at 2-m wavelength obtained in a ring resonator and its amplification experiment are reported. At the maximum pump energy of 4.7 J available for the oscillator,the output energy per pulse for the oscillator decreases from 904 to 483 mJ in free running mode,and decreases from 106 to 68 mJ in Q-switched mode,with an increase of pump pulse repetition rate from 1 to 5 Hz. When considering the amplifier,99-mJ Q-switched output energy is achieved at 5-Hz repetition rate.     

Highly efficient H-β Fraunhofer line optical parametric oscillator pumped by a single-frequency 355 nm laser

A highly efficient laser system output at the H-β Fraunhofer line of 486.1 nm has been demonstrated. A high pulse energy single-frequency hybrid 1064 nm master oscillator power amplifier was frequency-tripled to achieve355 nm laser pulses, which acted as the pump source of the beta barium borate nanosecond pulse optical parametric oscillator. With pump energy of 190 mJ, the laser system generated a maximum output of 62 mJ blue laser pulses at 486.1 nm, corresponding to conversion efficiency of 32.6%. The laser spectrum width was measured to be around 0.1 nm, being in conformity with the spectrum width of the solar Fraunhofer line.