氩气中飞秒超强紫外激光成丝的实验研究

中心波长808 nm,脉宽70 fs的钛蓝宝石激光系统三倍频后产生的中心波长268 nm、带宽1.5 nm、单脉冲能量0.58 mJ的紫外超快激光光源经凹面镜聚焦后注入到样品池氩气中,由强场非线性效应诱导形成了等离子体通道,并对紫外激光脉冲光谱进行展宽.实验着重研究了268 nm波段的紫外激光成丝特点,以及在不同气体压强、聚焦长度、气体种类等条件下紫外光丝对光谱的调制作用.在2.2×105Pa氩气气压、焦距1000 mm条件下,可以获得光谱宽度3.3 nm,加宽为人射紫外脉冲的2.2倍.实验观察到压强和聚焦长度的增加都有利于等离子体通道的增加,有利于光谱展宽.紫外激光诱导的等离子体通道为在紫外波段内获得极端超快激光脉冲提供了有效的途径.     

Efficient collinear frequency tripling of femtosecond laser with compensation of group velocity delay

This paper demonstrates an approach that negative uniaxial crystal has a relative anomalous dispersion effect which can compensate group velocity delay, and applies this approach to nonlinear frequency conversion of an ultrafast laser field. High efficiency of the third harmonic generation is experimentally fulfilled by adopting a collinear configuration of doubing-compensation-tripling system. Through finely adjusting the incident angle and optical axis direction of the compensation plate, it obtains ultraviolet (UV) output energy of 0.32~mJ centered at 270~nm with spectral bandwidth of 2~nm when input beam at 800~nm was 70~fs pulse duration and 6~mJ pulse energy which was extracted from Ti:sapphire laser system by a diaphragm, corresponding to an 800-to-270~nm conversion efficiency of 5.3% and a factor-of-1.6 improvement in the third harmonic generation of UV band in comparison with a general conventional configuration. Furthermore, when the full energy of 18~mJ from a Ti:sapphire laser system was used and optimized, the UV emission could reach 0.83~mJ.     

BBO晶体中级联非线性效应的实验研究

采用800 nm和400 nm两束飞秒激光脉冲在BBO晶体中同时满足相位匹配条件,产生差频、和频及其级联效应.实验运用了中心波长800 nm、重复频率10 Hz、脉宽60 fs及光斑直径7 mm的钛蓝宝石再生放大飞秒激光,输出约为10 mJ的能量以7:3分束.其中7 mJ光脉冲用一块非线性晶体BBO倍频至400 nm获得1.45 mJ能量,然后与另一束800 nm的3 mJ基频激光以非共线方式注入到另一块BBO中,在兼顾和频与差频的相位匹配条件下,即晶体对于和频与差频相位匹配状态同时存在少量失谐时,会同时产生267 nm与800 nm的和频与差频效应,新产生光波与原入射激光脉冲又经过进一步非线性混频作用,最终得到多达10余束可见、紫外的一维列阵.分析了此级联非线性效应的产生机理并讨论了入射光强度,啁啾,延迟等因素对级联效果的影响.     

空间走离和相速度补偿的高效飞秒脉冲倍频

采用两块大小均为10 mm×10 mm×0.2 mm的BBO晶体级联的实验方案对中心波长为800 nm、脉宽70 fs、重复频率10 Hz的激光进行了倍频,针对BBO晶体的空间走离和相速度失配,分别调节两块倍频晶体的光轴夹角和基频光的角度匹配失谐量.实验表明,两块倍频晶体光轴反向平行可以补偿空间走离效应,一定的角度失谐可以补偿基频光和倍频光的相速度失配.在无聚焦情况下,使用两块BBO晶体级联相互配合优化将8.1 mJ的入射基频光倍频后得到带宽6.7 nm(傅里叶转换极限脉冲宽度为35 fs)、2.8 mJ以上的倍频光.其倍频效率高达35.7%,是同等条件下单块晶体倍频转换效牢的1.7倍.