高功率全光纤保偏主振荡功率放大型光纤激光器的实验研究

进行了全光纤保偏主振荡功率放大型光纤激光器的实验研究. 采用两级级联放大的方式, 利用纤芯为5 μupm 的小芯径双包层保偏光纤, 在最大抽运功率为88 W 时实现了67 W的1083 nm保偏激光输出, 纤芯内的激光功率密度约为3.4 W/μupm², 光-光转换效率为76%．分析结果表明, 进一步提高抽运功率有望获得更高功率的激光输出．     

全光纤结构高功率主振荡功率放大型单频光纤激光器

研制了一台全光纤结构主振荡功率放大型掺镱单频光纤激光器。该光纤激光器包括种子激光器和级联放大器两部分。种子激光器是自行搭建的环形腔结构的单频窄线宽光纤激光器。在976 nm半导体激光器泵浦下,能够输出线宽为10 MHz量级、波长为1 079.88 nm的单频光,激光功率为10.02 W,光-光转化效率为58.9%,斜率效率为65.3%。     

侧面泵浦主振荡功率放大器中的光束质量提高

报道了一种利用球差补偿效应提高侧面泵浦主振荡功率放大器输出光束质量的实验装置。在理论上提出了一种新的球差补偿方法,利用正球差经过会聚透镜焦点后向负球差转化的现象,补偿下一放大级中的正球差效应。在实验上搭建了两级放大的侧面泵浦Nd:YAG主振荡功率放大器。在连续输出的情况下,从振荡级输出功率为42 W、光束质量因子为1.48的种子光,经过一级放大后的功率为74 W,光束质量因子恶化为1.80;继续经过二级放大后,光束质量因子提高为1.40。实验结果表明,所提出的球差补偿理论是提高激光放大过程中光束质量的有效手段。     

Laser-diode-pumped zigzag slab Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier

A high-repetition rate master oscillator power amplifier pumped with laser diodes (LDs) is reported. An injection seeding single-frequency electro-optical Q-switched Nd:YAG laser is used as an oscillator, and a conductively cooled Nd:YAG zigzag slab with a bounce-pumped architecture is utilized as a power amplifier. Pulse energies of over 800 mJ at 1 064 nm and 400 mJ at 532 nm, corresponding to average powers of 200 and 100 W, respectively, are achieved with a 12.6-ns pulse width at 250 Hz. Output frequency fluctuations and single-frequency operation are further monitored. Experimental results reveal that the proposed system, which features a single-pass amplified configuration, is a promising design for space-based applications.     

侧面泵浦主振荡功率放大器中的光束质量提高

报道了一种利用球差补偿效应提高侧面泵浦主振荡功率放大器输出光束质量的实验装置。在理论上提出了一种新的球差补偿方法,利用正球差经过会聚透镜焦点后向负球差转化的现象,补偿下一放大级中的正球差效应。在实验上搭建了两级放大的侧面泵浦Nd:YAG主振荡功率放大器。在连续输出的情况下,从振荡级输出功率为42W、光束质量因子为1.48的种子光,经过一级放大后的功率为74W,光束质量因子恶化为1.80;继续经过二级放大后,光束质量因子提高为1.40。实验结果表明,所提出的球差补偿理论是提高激光放大过程中光束质量的有效手段。     

Development of copper bromide laser master oscillator power amplifier system

Development of master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) system of copper bromide laser (CBL) operating at 110 W average power is reported. The spectral distribution of power at green (510.6 nm) and yellow (578.2 nm) components in the output of a copper bromide laser is studied as a function of operating parameters. The electrical input power was varied from 2.6 to 4.3 kW, the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) was changed from 16 to 19 kHz, and the pressure of the buffer gas (neon) was kept fixed at 20 mbar. When the electrical input power was increased to 4.3 kW from 2.6 kW, the tube-wall temperature also increased to 488°C from 426°C but the ratio of the green to yellow power decreased to 1.53 from 3.73. The ratio of green to yellow power decreased to 1.53 from 1.63 when the PRF of the laser was increased to 19 kHz from 16 kHz. These observations are explained in terms of electron temperature, energy levels of transitions, and voltage and current waveforms across the laser head.     

High-power 100-fs pulse generation by frequency doubling of an erbium ytterbium-fiber master oscillator power amplifier

Frequency doubling of an erbium-ytterbium-fiber master-oscillator-power-amplifier system is demonstrated. Simultaneous amplification and pulse compression in multimode erbium-ytterbium-doped fibers produces high-quality near-diffraction and near-bandwidth-limited 100-fs pulses at a wavelength of 1.62microm with an average power of 230 mW at a repetition rate of 52 MHz. Periodically poled LiNbO(3) allows for frequency doubling with a conversion efficiency of 51%, producing near-bandwidth-limited 105-fs pulses with an average power of 117 mW and a pulse energy of 2.3 nJ at a wavelength of 810 nm.     

High-power top-hat pulses from a Yb master oscillator power amplifier for efficient optical parametric amplifier pumping

We demonstrate shaping of high-energy broadband Yb amplifier pulses for the generation of a (sub)picosecond top-hat temporal pulse profile that significantly improves pumping efficiency of an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). Phase-only modulation is applied by an acousto-optic programmable dispersion filter. This simple scheme is scalable to a high average power due to a relatively broad bandwidth of the Yb:CaF(2) gain medium used in the amplifier that supports a sub-150-fs transform-limited pulse duration. Additionally we show that OPA seeding with supercontinuum remains possible because top-hat-shaped pulses passed through a glass block recompress to ≈200 fs with minimum satellite production.     

175-W continuous-wave master oscillator power amplifier structure ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser

We report on hundred watts range ytterbium-doped all-fiber laser assembly based on the master oscillator power amplifier structure. It consisted of an oscillator and an amplifier with all-fiber components. And fiber fusion splice made the laser be an integrated fiber system. It generated up to 175.5 W of continuouswave (CW) output power at 1085 nm with more than 75% extraction efficiency in the amplifier when the total coupled pump power into the double clad fiber was 270 W.     

10 W级主控振荡放大半导体激光芯片封装实验研究

结温升高是影响主控振荡放大(MOPA)半导体激光芯片输出功率的重要因素,为解决MOPA芯片的多电极封装和高效散热问题,提出了一种正装和热扩散辅助次热沉相结合的封装结构。建立了该封装结构的3D热模型,对比研究了倒装封装结构、正装无辅助次热沉结构与正装有辅助次热沉结构对MOPA半导体激光器结温的影响。计算结果表明,采用正装有辅助次热沉结构与倒装封装结构散热性能接近,且显著优于正装无辅助次热沉结构,结温降低幅度最高可达40%。另外,采用正装有辅助次热沉封装结构的MOPA半导体激光芯片在连续工作条件下输出功率为10.5 W,谱宽可实现半高全宽小于0.1 nm,中心波长随电流的变化约14 pm/A,实现了10 W级MOPA芯片的封装,验证了该封装结构的有效性。     

26 nJ picosecond solitons from thulium-doped single-mode master oscillator power fiber amplifier

We report on an all single-mode master oscillator power fiber amplifier delivering high energy picosecond solitons at 1960 nm. The Bragg stabilized and self-starting oscillator delivers 62 pJ transform-limited pulses at 11.2 MHz pulse repetition frequency. Solitons are amplified in a core-pumped single-mode heavily thulium-doped fiber up to 26 nJ. The average and peak power are 291 mW and 7.4 kW, respectively. Pulses remain transform limited without significant self-phase-modulation distortion. We discuss the limitations of picosecond pulse amplification in a core-pumped single-mode fiber amplifier.     

23W peak power picosecond pulses from a single-stage all-semiconductor master oscillator power amplifier

Using a single-stage all-semiconductor master oscillator-power amplifier, we generate narrow-band laser pulses of 23?W peak power at 1063?nm wavelength. These pulses of 40?ps length FWHM have a variable repetition rate and pulse energies around 2?nJ, which exceeds previous realizations and makes them ideally suited for second harmonic generation. With a spectral filter, an extinction ratio above 36?dB could be achieved at nearly 10?W peak power. We use a novel spectral method to reliably determine pulse energies independently of the background level.     

Theory of Pr:ZBLAN ultraviolet upconversion fiber master oscillator power amplifier

A theoretical study for ultraviolet upconversion fiber master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) based on the transition from the 4f5d state to the ³H₄ ground state in Pr³⁺:ZBLAN fiber is performed by using steady population rate equations and propagation equations. The variation of the output power with the fiber length of master oscillator and MOPA and the launched pump powers, the dependence of the slope efficiency on the fiber length of master oscillator and MOPA, and the optimum fiber length of MOPA as a function of the launched pump powers, are calculated. Both the output power and the slope efficiency of MOPA are 2-3 times those of the simplex oscillator. It is found that the UV upconversion fiber MOPA system can effectively improve the output power and the slope efficiency of laser.     

Linearly polarized, 3.35 W narrow-linewidth, 1150 nm fiber master oscillator power amplifier for frequency doubling to the yellow

A high-power linearly polarized Yb-doped silica fiber master oscillator power amplifier at 1150 nm is reported. It produced 3.35 W cw and 2.33 W of average power in 1 micros pulses at a 100 kHz repetition rate, both with 8 pm linewidth. This is the first report, to the best of our knowledge, of a high-power Yb-doped fiber amplifier at a wavelength longer than 1135 nm. The pulsed output was frequency doubled in a bulk periodically poled near-stoichiometric LiTaO(3) chip to generate 976 mW of average power at 575 nm with an overall system optical-to-optical efficiency of 9.8% with respect to launched pump power.     

High-power continuous-wave output of master oscillator power amplifier system at 1053 and 1083 nm

We report the efficient generation of high-power laser radiation at 1053 and 1083 nm wavelength by using of a hybrid master oscillator fiber power amplifier system, consisting of a diode-pumped Yb-doped oxyorthosilicate solid state laser as the master oscillator and an Yb-doped large-mode-area fiber as the power amplifier. Efficient tunable diode-pumped Yb-doped oxyorthosilicate lasers at 1053 and 1083 nm have been constructed, which was scaled up to a maximum output power of 34.5 W at 1053 nm and 30.2 W at 1083 nm by a fiber power amplifier, corresponding to a slope efficiency of 93.9 and 87.8%, respectively.     

Incoherent and coherent master oscillator/power stimulated Brillouin beam combination for amplifier system with scattering mirror

In this paper, we studied incoherent and coherent beam combining for the master oscillator/power amplifier （MOPA） system with stimulated Brillouin scattering （SBS） mirror. Optic field intensity distributions in the near and far field are numerically calculated for the two kinds of system. The results show that good beam quality in the far field could be obtained. It provides a theoretical basis for experimental research in the future.     

Generation of high energy and good beam quality pulses with a master oscillator power amplifier

A high efficiency and high peak power laser system with short-pulse and good beam quality has been demonstrated by using a master oscillator power amplifier with two-pass amplification configuration. The master oscillator, end-pumped with a fiber-coupled laser diode array, provides low power but excellent beam quality pulses, and the amplifier boosts the pulse energy by orders without significant beam quality degradation. Short pulses of 8.5 ns with energy up to 130 mJ and approximately diffraction limited beam quality have been demonstrated.     

Single-frequency, single-mode, plane-polarized ytterbium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier source with 264 W of output power

We present a single-frequency, single-mode, plane-polarized ytterbium-doped all-fiber master oscillator power amplifier source at 1060 nm generating 264 W of continuous-wave output power. The final-stage amplifier operated with a high gain of 19 dB and a high conversion efficiency of 68%. There was no evidence of rollover from stimulated Brillouin scattering even at the highest output power, and the maximum output was limited only by the available pump power.     

半导体激光泵浦单频高功率光纤放大器的研究

在讨论单频高功率光纤放大器工作原理的基础上,评述了单频高功率光纤放大器的最新进展。指出了单频高功率光纤放大器的关键技术:稳定可靠的、光频特性优良的信号源;吸收效率高的、受激布利渊散射泵浦阈值功率低的增益光纤;高效的耦合系统。     

Low frequency behaviour of the Pisa seismic noise super-attenuator for gravitational wave detection

The absolute displacements, for frequencies below 20 Hz, of the 400 kg test mass seismically isolated by the Pisa super-attenuator, to be used in long base interferometer for gravitational wave research, are presented. In the region below 6 Hz, the maximum displacement is about 14 μm. The displacements, at 10 and 20 Hz, are ≤ 1.5 × 10^-13 and ≤ 4 × 10^-14 m/√Hz respectively and represent presumably the lowest ever reached by a suspended mass on earth. The super-attenuator transfer function, which has been measured using the seism as an exciter for 0<υ<6 Hz, shows a remarkable agreement with the theoretical one and demonstrates the necessity of having an attenuating system working in three dimensions.