Spontaneous nano pattern formation under pulsed exposure: relaxation kinetics study

Formation of spontaneous surface relief grating under pulsed exposure on the surface of an azo polymer film has been investigated. We did experiments in different repetition rates and pulse widths by use an electro mechanical chopper and a diode-pumped solid-state laser with wavelength of 532?nm as pump beam. Incidence of pump beam, has been set normal to the surface of azo-polymer film. Spontaneous surface relief grating with grating pitch of ~1,250?nm was formed. For low repetition rate, relaxation due to cis-trans isomerization becomes dominant and growth rate becomes slower. A threshold for spontaneous pattern formation was found. In addition to an increase in the diffraction intensity during illumination, anomalous variation of diffraction intensity by switching on and off the laser was observed. By switching off the recording beam sharp enhancement occurred. By switching on the recording beam, after a sharp decrease in the intensity of diffracted beam, it increased further under illumination. Anomalous variations, strongly depends on polarization of the probe beam and the irradiation time for the formation of spontaneous SRG. Sharp enhancement has been attributed to cis-trans thermal isomerization and sharp decrease has been attributed to isomeration in whole surface under illumination.     

位相畸变对强紫外激光在空气中长程传输的影响

 采用瞬态受激旋转拉曼散射（SRRS）模型,详细考虑了激光脉冲的位相变化、时间波形、泵浦光的衰减、斯托克斯光的非线性放大以及初始的随机斯托克斯散射场等诸多因素,研究了空间位相畸变对空气中长程传输过程中产生的SRRS效应的影响。研究结果表明：位相畸变对阈值条件和时间特性影响较小,而对光束质量影响较为明显;随着位相畸变的增大,光束的能量分布变得极不均匀,光束的光强对比度也明显变大,从而使激光光束质量变差,而且当传输距离达到阈值条件后,随着传输距离的增加,光束质量将进一步变差。     

A travelling-wave beam deflector cleave-coupled to a diode laser

A new technique for scanning a diode laser beam is introduced where the beam is deflected in a current-injection-type travelling-wave beam deflector integrated with a diode laser. The deflector, which is formed outside the laser cavity, is cleave-coupled to the cavity. An anti-reflection coating on the deflector output facet suppresses the light returning to the laser. As a result, very smooth deflection of the radiation peak with low background intensity is realized in this device, while retaining high efficiency and low threshold current.     

部分相干源实验研究

 在无阶梯诱导空间非相干光束平滑技术中，用作前端的部分相干源是重要的组成部分。介绍了利用准分子激光进行的部分相干源实验，发现聚四氟乙烯是一种较理想的散射材料。研究了聚四氟乙烯散射源对光束的散射性能，给出了光束均匀性、空间相干性和能量转换效率等参数。     

Electron Acceleration by a radially polarised cosh-Gaussian laser beam in vacuum

In this paper, a radially polarised cosh-Gaussian laser beam(CGLB) is used to study the electron acceleration produced in vacuum. A highly energetic electron beam can be achieved by a CGLB,even with comparatively low-powered lasers. The properties of a CGLB cause it to focus earlier,over a shorter duration than a Gaussian laser beam, which makes it suitable for obtaining high energies over small durations. It is found that the energy gained by the electrons strongly depends upon the decentering parameter of the laser profile. It is also observed that for a fixed value of energy gain, if the decentering parameter is increased, then the intensity of the laser field decreases. The dependence of the energy gained by electrons on the laser intensity and the laserspot size is also studied.     

强激光束与空腔靶相互作用实验研究

1.06μm波长的强激光束辐照Au材料制作的空腔靶,采用目前国内最先进的诊断设备。对腔内高温等离子体现象演变规律进行了实验观察,获得了反射激光、能量吸收、X光转换、亚千X光能谱及时空特性、辐射温度、超热电子等重要物理信息,并就实验结果作了必要的分析和讨论     

Beam profile monitor for pulsed CO2-laser

Commercial beam profile monitors for pulsed CO₂ lasers (10.6 μm wavelength) are expensive and suffer from a low damage threshold. To overcome these problems, a robust detector with a high damage threshold was developed. The detector is made of a special type of graphite which is evaporated during the interaction with the laser beam. A plasma is formed which radiates visible light. Using a conventional fast shutter imaging system, this plasma light directly shows the spatial intensity distribution of the laser beam. The detector works in the power range of 10⁵-10⁷ W/cm²      

Optimal Truncation of Element Beam in a Coherent Fiber Laser Array

The beam quality of a coherent fiber laser array often suffers from the low fill factor of the Gaussian laser array. One simple and effective approach to improve the fill factor is to truncate the array element properly. An analytical expression for far-field intensity distribution of a truncated coherent fiber laser array is derived. Optimal truncation of the element beam in different coherent fiber laser arrays is obtained by using energy encircled in the far-field central-lobe as the beam quality criterion. By optimal truncation, energy encircled in the central-lobe can be 97% compared with the ideal case. The shift in optimal truncation parameter in the case of phase noise is also analyzed.     

A new walk-off compensated multipass scheme for large enhancement of conversion efficiency for fourth harmonic generation

A significant enhancement is treated in the energy of a fourth harmonic generated beam (266 nm) by employing the new technique of walk-off compensated multipass configuration without any change either in the beam parameters or in the intensity of the input fundamental laser radiation. As much as 56% conversion efficiency is obtained in twin lithium tetraborate crystals, even though the effective nonlinear coefficient of the crystal is as low as 1/6th that of KDP. Apart from crystals that have large walk-off angles, low effective nonlinear coefficients, or both, the simple experimental set-up would also be quite suitable for those crystals, especially infrared crystals that have large effective nonlinear coefficients but low laser damage thresholds.     

Femtosecond laser highly-efficient plane processing based on an axicon-generated donut-shaped beam

A simple technique is proposed for highly-efficient plane processing fully based on femtosecond laser beam shaping. The laser intensity distribution is transformed from a Gaussian to a donut shape. As the donut-shaped focus seems like a flat top from the side view, a plane with a high level of flatness is obtained directly by scanning once.By applying it to polishing experiments, the surface roughness can be improved significantly. The influence of scanning speed, laser pulse energy, and scanning times on the roughness is also discussed. Moreover, the scanning width can be flexibly controlled in a wide range.     

对超短脉冲激光引雷产生的等离子体通道的特性分析

 利用隧道电离诱导闪电模型,对超短脉冲激光在大气中产生弱等离子体通道的电阻和阈值强度进行了分析和计算。结果显示：强度为10¹⁴ W/cm²量级的超短脉冲激光产生的气体等离子体通道有较好的导电性,所需激光能量很小, 说明在该模型下激光能量的利用效率很高。     

Permanent data recording in transparent materials by using a nanojoule-class pulse laser

We investigated data recording for permanent data storage using an ultrafast pulse laser with nanojoule-class pulse energy and megahertz-class repetition rate in transparent materials, and driveless reading based on a simple imaging system. A transparent ceramics called Lumicera®, manufactured by Murata Mfg. Co., Ltd., was used as the recording medium. Lumicera® has a lower modification threshold and a higher recording sensitivity than those of silica glass, namely, the medium previously studied. Structural modification in Lumicera® occurs by light exposure for 10 μs, suggesting that Lumicera® has potential for a recording speed of over 100 kbps. Data recorded in Lumicera® resists heating for 2 h at 1000 °C and is expected to have a lifetime of over 300 million years. Moreover, the data recorded in Lumicera® was successfully read with a reading system based on a smart phone.     

Generation of a quasimonoenergetic electron beam using a single laser pulse

The results of experiments are presented for a single laser pulse interaction with a very low density gas target under conditions when the generated wake wave is below the wave-breaking threshold and the laser pulse power is lower than the critical power for relativistic self-focusing. A quasimonoenergetic electron beam is found to be stably generated for various laser pulse intensity values by controlling the acceleration length.     

激光参数对非理想真空激光光强极限的影响

人类在实验室可实现的激光强度极限是强场量子电动力学（QED）的重要问题。在非理想真空条件下,极端超强激光与残留的电子相互作用触发伽马光子辐射与正负电子对产生的QED级联效应,从而显著消耗激光能量,大幅降低可实现的激光峰值强度。考虑到QED级联效应与激光偏振、焦斑尺寸、脉宽长度有着密切的关系,基于囊括QED过程的粒子网格模拟方法（Particle-in-cell, PIC）对上述参数的效应进行分析,同时构建了激光场演化的自洽方程来进行解释,二者结果基本保持一致,获得的强度极限在考虑的参数范围内为1026～1027 W/cm?2。结果表明,同等情形下,圆偏振激光可激发更强的QED级联,使得激光强度上限略低于线偏振。此外,紧聚焦激光由于QED级联发生的时空间尺度更小,从而激光的吸收效应被显著抑制,进而可以实现更强的聚焦强度。对于更长脉宽的激光,由于正负电子对吸收的能量区域更加弥散,使得可实现的激光强度上限阈值有所提升。但对于超短脉宽情形（如单周期）,由于QED级联的种子源电子束不能很好地被约束在激光区域,理论分析耗散的激光能量偏高。此外,在高真空度的情形下,残余电子的随机性也会对可实现激光强度产生一定的影响。研究结果可为后续开展极端强场QED实验和数100 PW级超强超短激光装置建设提供指导。     

CAE-based compensation methods of non-uniform pulse laser beam profiles

Applying the pulse laser to speckle methods, non-uniformities of the laser beam profiles and the intensities between each laser pulse have unpleasant consequences on the intensity distribution of the recorded images and following on the assigned fringes of the corresponding subtractive result. This contribution introduces a computer-based technique for compensating this technical and physical problem, so that the fringe quality is improved, even if the homogeneity of the laser beam profiles is on such low level, that the conventional (subtractive) technique fails. The solution is based on algorithms, which refines each intensity distribution and is comparable with the known shading correction.     

Side-pumped crystalline Raman laser

A crystalline Raman laser is pumped at 90° to the Raman laser axis by a single pass from a line-focused 532 nm pump laser of pulse duration 10 ns. The Raman laser threshold was 6.1 mJ, and at 12 mJ pump energy, a maximum output energy of 2.7 mJ was obtained with a slope efficiency of 46%. The threshold pump intensity is within a factor of 2 of the same device when end-pumped. The results highlight significant potential for coherent beam conversion and combination with enhanced degrees of flexibility and increased power.     

激光光刻中的超分辨现象研究

激光光刻是加工微光学及二元光学掩模的主要手段。光刻的最细线宽对所加工的二元微器件性能起决定作用。本文导出了会聚的高斯光束用于激光光刻时在光刻胶内的光场近似上此可判断出能光刻线条的分辨力。若入射高斯光束受到振中相位调制时,胶层内的光强分布将发生变化,从而影响曝光线条的线宽和质量。计算看出：当入射光中心环受到遮拦时,可以得到超光刻物镜极限分辨的线条宽度（０．６μｍ）,但此时对曝光能量控制要求很高。在激     

Nonlinear beam shaper for femtosecond laser pulses, from Gaussian to flat-top profile

We present a straightforward method to transform a spatially Gaussian femtosecond laser beam into a flat-top shaped beam. The proposed technique takes advantage of a nonlinear phase induced in positive Kerr medium followed by a simple optical system. The variation of the refractive index with the laser intensity creates a phase plate which induces changes in the beam profile after propagation; flat-top and doughnut profiles are observed. The shaping conditions are computed numerically and confirmed experimentally. The method does not introduce energy losses. The device is very simple, self-regulated, flexible and does not need a manufactured phase plate or precise alignment. This method can be useful for light-matter interaction and laser machining.     

Theoretical studies of ultrafast ablation of metal targets dominated by phase explosion

Ultrashort pulse laser ablation of metallic targets is investigated theoretically through establishing a modified two-temperature model that takes into account both the temperature dependent electron–lattice coupling and the electron–electron-collision dominated electron diffusion processes for higher electron temperature regime. The electron–lattice energy coupling rate is found to reduce only slowly with increasing pulse duration, but grow rapidly with laser fluence, implying that the melting time of metallic materials decreases as the laser intensity increases. By taking phase explosion as the primary ablation mechanism, the predicted dependences of ablation rates on laser energy fluences for different laser pulse widths match very well with the experimental data. It is also found that during phase explosion the ablation rate is almost independent of the pulse width, whereas the ablation threshold fluence increases with the pulse duration even for femtosecond pulses. These theoretical results should be useful in having proper understanding of the ablation physics of ultrafast micromachining of metal targets. PACS 52.50.Jm; 61.80.Az; 72.15.Cz; 79.20.Ap; 79.20.Ds     

全息光栅制作中的实时潜像自监测技术

介绍了一种实时监测全息光栅曝光过程的新方法。在曝光过程中,光刻胶折射率的空间分布发生微小变化,由此形成的潜像光栅同时对记录光束产生衍射(自衍射),探测一个非零级次的衍射强度的变化就可对曝光过程实时监测。实验证明,这种技术能灵敏、客观地探测出样片之间由于个性差异所导致的最佳曝光量的漂移,制作者可以借此对曝光时间做实时补偿。发现自监测曲线之线性区的末端存在着一个明显的最佳曝光参考点,紧接其后是一个最佳曝光可选择区。采用了一个曝光模型,其模拟结果和实验中得到的自监测曲线能很好地吻合。理论分析证实,根据实时监测曲线的相对幅值来优化最佳曝光量的方法是很合理的,这种实时自监测是一种非常简单、能有效控制曝光量的技术。