板条增益介质波前畸变诊断方法

对波前重构算法中的区域法进行了改进,使其能够应用于板条增益介质的波前畸变诊断。利用该方法对47块Nd: YAG板条增益介质沿厚度方向波前畸变进行测量,指出镀膜和加工等环节对增益介质的波前畸变可能造成的影响。按照波前畸变峰谷（PV）值对测量结果进行了统计,结果表明:增益介质造成的静态波前畸变参差不齐,测量样本中静态畸变PV值最多可达5 m以上,且仅有4.1%的增益介质静态畸变PV值小于1 m。通过选取某些增益介质使之级联,测量其组合波前畸变,发现在系统中使用两块波面互补的增益介质有助于减小系统的静态波前畸变。     

A slope-based decoupling algorithm to simultaneously control dual deformable mirrors in a woofer–tweeter adaptive optics system

We propose a slope-based decoupling algorithm to simultaneously control the dual deformable mirrors(DMs) in a woofer–tweeter adaptive optics system. This algorithm can directly use the woofer's response matrix measured from a Shack–Hartmann wave-front sensor to construct a slope-based orthogonal basis, and then selectively distribute the largeamplitude low-order aberration to woofer DM and the remaining aberration to tweeter DM through the slope-based orthogonal basis. At the same moment, in order to avoid the two DMs generating opposite compensation, a constraint matrix used to reset tweeter control vector is convenient to be calculated with the slope-based orthogonal basis. Numeral simulation demonstrates that this algorithm has a good performance to control the adaptive optics system with dual DMs simultaneously. Compared with the typical decoupling algorithm, this algorithm can take full use of the compensation ability of woofer DM and release the stroke of tweeter DM to compensate high-order aberration. More importantly, it does not need to measure the accurate shape of tweeter's influence function and keeps better performance of restraining the coupling error with the continuous-dynamic aberration.     

Beam cleanup of a 532-nm pulsed solid-state laser using a bimorph mirror

A successful beam cleanup of a 5-mJ/200-μs pulsed solid-state laser system operating at 532-nm wavelength is demonstrated. In this beam cleanup system, a wave-front sensor-less adaptive optics (AO) system is set up with a 20-element bimorph mirror (BM), a high-voltage amplifier, a charge-coupled device camera, and a control software implementing the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm. The brightness of the laser focal spot is improved because the wave-front distortions have been compensated. The performance of this system is presented and the experimental results are analyzed.     

腔内双压电变形镜光强分布优化

报道了把20单元双压电变形镜作为闪光氪灯泵浦的Nd:YAG激光器的腔镜,优化激光器输出光束远场强度分布的实验结果。变形镜由随机并行梯度下降算法控制,以相机采集到的激光束远场环围能量作为算法的评价指标,控制双压电变形镜的面形向远场能量分布更加集中的方向变化。结果表明:系统在20 s内将远场光斑中的多个亮斑校正为单个亮斑,峰值光强与优化前相比提高了5倍;在腔镜倾斜较大时,实验系统将激光器的输出功率由0.006~0.051 W提升至0.330 W,验证了实验系统的有效性。     

交连值对斜率响应矩阵和迭代矩阵稀疏度的影响

基于529单元自适应光学(AO)系统,分析了变形镜到哈特曼波前传感器的斜率响应矩阵的稀疏特性、波前复原中迭代矩阵的稀疏特性.在变形镜驱动器间距不变的条件下,研究了驱动器交连值对斜率响应矩阵稀疏度、迭代矩阵稀疏度以及AO系统校正能力的影响.研究表明,斜率响应矩阵和迭代矩阵的稀疏度随交连值的增大而减小;交连值过大或者过小都会影响AO系统的稳定性和校正能力.最后,综合斜率响应矩阵和迭代矩阵的稀疏度、系统稳定性和校正能力,给出了交连值的合理取值范围.     

37单元双压电片变形镜板条激光光束净化

为了校正板条激光器输出光束波前像差,改善输出光束质量,提出了基于37单元双压电片变形镜的板条激光光束净化系统。采用柱面反射式单向扩束器使主振荡功率放大结构板条激光器输出光束尺寸与37单元双压电片变形镜有效口径相匹配,利用随机并行梯度下降算法控制双压电片变形镜面形,进行波前像差闭环校正,校正后光束远场归一化桶中功率提高到净化前的2~3倍。     

双压电片变形镜像差校正能力

利用实测影响函数,通过数值仿真分析了有效孔径、光束入射角度对于20单元双压电片变形镜像差校正能力的影响。仿真结果表明:有效孔径为16 mm时,变形镜对于各阶像差的校正能力较好;而随着光束入射到变形镜角度的增大,变形镜对于像差的校正精度与校正幅度都会出现下降,但是如果能够将入射角控制在25以内,入射角度对变形镜的像差校正能力影响不大。