数值模拟抽运分布对端泵激光器晶体热透镜球差的影响

为了研究端面抽运情况下,激光晶体在不同分布的抽运光抽运时热透镜球差的变化,通过对稳态热传导方程和Zernike多项式的求解,建立了热透镜球差与抽运光强度分布的模型,对模型进行了理论分析和仿真研究,并对仿真结果做了进一步理论和仿真分析.结果表明:在相同的抽运功率下,二阶超高斯分布抽运光抽运时球差最大,且随着抽运分布系数k的增大(除高斯分布外)球差逐渐减小;随着抽运功率的增加,抽运分布系数k对球差的影响逐渐加重,且不同分布系数k所产生的球差差距逐渐增大;并对二阶超高斯分布抽运光抽运得到最强激光功率的照射范围进行了理论分析和仿真分析,得知在相同抽运功率下,二阶超高斯分布抽运光得到最强激光功率的范围最宽为0.30—0.63倍高斯半径.     

超短脉冲经过小数值口径透镜的聚焦特性

 从亥姆霍兹方程出发，考虑透镜的色差和球差，得到了超短脉冲经过小数值口径透镜后光场的解析表达式；利用数值模拟得到了旁轴焦平面和边缘焦平面上光场强度的时空分布，以及聚焦区域内轴上点的强度分布图，并分析了色差和球差的大小对它们的影响。由于通过透镜中心和边缘之间的大部分脉冲产生了干涉相消，因此在旁轴焦平面与边缘焦平面上都出现前、后两个峰值相差很大的脉冲，并且随着球差的增大，两峰值差更大了；聚焦区域内轴上点的强度分布基本是对称的，强度最大点不是出现在旁轴和边缘焦平面上，而是在它们之间的某个位置，并且随着球差的增加，该位置将向聚焦区域的边缘靠近。     

Influence of the comatic aberration of an apertured lens on the focused polychromatic Gaussian beams

The focusing of polychromatic Gaussian beams by an apertured lens with comatic aberration is investigated in this paper. We study the influence of the comatic aberration and truncation parameter on the intensity distribution at the focal plane, and singularities and spectral behavior near the focal plane in detail. The simulation results show that the maximum intensity at the focal plane will shift and split with the gradual increment of comatic aberration. We also find that the decrease of truncation parameter will counteract the influence of comatic aberration, which leads to the intensity variation. Furthermore, the singularity transformation and spectral anomalies are discussed. It is found that with the increment of comatic aberration, some singularities are split into several new singularities, and by combining some of these new singularities with other singularities near the focal plane, they vanish or form new singularities with the continuing increase of comatic aberration. The decreasing value of truncation parameter will cause similar phenomena.     

高功率叠阵二极管激光器光束整形

采用光线追迹法详细分析线阵二极管激光器经微球面柱透镜快轴准直后的光强变化情况,利用快轴准直微球面柱透镜的球差可调整输出激光光强分布的特性,得出了快轴准直输出发散角约5°时光强分布具有较好的平顶形式。根据叠阵二极管激光器输出光的特点,设计了由25个二极管激光器组成的叠阵二极管激光器的光束整形输出系统,该系统由快轴准直微透镜、快轴耦合透镜和慢轴耦合透镜组成,把需要泵浦的激光介质薄片设计在快轴耦合透镜的焦点上,并且在慢轴耦合透镜的成像面附近,得到了7mm×8mm的泵浦光斑,光强不均匀性约10%,输出效率达到85%。     

The temporal development of the intensity distribution in a focussed laser beam

This paper extends the steady-state calculation of the intensity distribution near the focus of a laser beam, to the case when the laser intensity is changing rapidly, over a time of order 1 picosecond. An efficient procedure for computation is outlined, allowing for the primary spherical aberration of the focussing lens and arbitrary dependence of the incident amplitude on position and time, and results are given for two trial calculations.     

Analysis of beam quality for the laser beams after spectral beam combining

The beam quality of the laser beams after spectral beam combining (SBC) has been analyzed in this paper. Based on the propagation model of the spectral beam combining system, the expression for the output field of an individual beam passing through the spectral beam combining system with lens aberration has been given and the intensity distribution of the combined beam has been studied by the principle of incoherent superposition. Consequently, according to the intensity second-order moments method, the M²-factor of the combined beam has been calculated and the effect of lens aberration on the characteristics of the combined beam has been analyzed quantitatively. It can be shown that the SBC system can improve the beam quality of laser array significantly, and the M²-factor of the combined beam passing through the ideal spectral beam combining system is almost the same as that of an individual beam. For the spectral beam combining system with lens aberration, the spherical aberration has greater effect on the off-axis beam than on the on-axis beam, and the beam quality of combined beam degrades with increase in lens aberration.     

High aperture focusing through a spherical interface: Application to refractive solid immersion lens (RSIL) for subsurface imaging

The effects of on-axis spherical aberration and defocus on focusing across a spherical interface between two materials of mismatched refractive index are discussed. A vectorial integral representation for high aperture focusing in this configuration is formulated and an analytical expression for the spherical aberration function is derived. Numerical simulations are performed to analyse the effects of the spherical interface on both the transverse and axial intensity profiles. The results from these numerical simulations are important industrially in understanding the resolution enhancements from solid immersion lens technology, as well as being of more fundamental interest in calculating the distribution at the focal plane under different solid immersion lens configurations.     

微变形镜补偿激光器腔内热畸变的研究

大功率激光器中由增益介质热畸变产生热透镜效应,导致激光器的性能下降.采用基于MEMS技术加工的微变形反射镜作为激光器谐振腔的一部分,能实时补偿热透镜效应,提高激光器的输出功率.推导了热畸变与微变形镜镜面形变量、反射镜驱动单元上电压的关系并进行了实验.实验结果表明,在初始功率为287 mW、383 mW、482 mW和800 mW的情况下使用微变形镜进行补偿,可以将功率提高到437 mW、710 mW、894 mW和993 mW,在理论和实验上证明了使用微变形镜可以改善激光器腔内热畸变.     

激光远场焦斑测试技术的实验研究

 实验研究了激光远场焦斑能量分布测试的三种方法（长焦距透镜法、列阵相机法、Rattle Pair法），对三种测试方法得到的实验数据进行了比对，系统地分析了每种方法的优缺点。结果表明,采用长焦距透镜与一对微楔角劈板组合测试激光远场焦斑的方法更具优势，可减少测试系统引入的像差，并使图像处理过程得到简化。     

Influence of astigmatism and defocusing on the focusing of a singular beam

Using the Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction integral, the intensity distribution and encircled energy of a singular beam at the focal plane of a lens, has been numerically evaluated in the presence of astigmatism and defocusing. Study has been made for two values of topological charge. The aberration results in flattening of dark core and the effect is more pronounced for beam with double topological charge. Twofold symmetry in intensity distribution is observed for selected values of defocusing. The results have been verified by the optical transfer function (OTF) approach.     

Influences of pump beam distribution on thermal lensing spherical aberration in an LD end-pumped Nd:YAG laser

A numerical investigation is made on the thermal lensing and spherical aberration effect in an LD end-pumped Nd:YAG laser. Based on the finite element method (FEM), the laser rod temperature distribution is calculated and the focal length of the thermal lens is deduced, the influences of pump beam on the thermal lensing spherical aberration are mainly studied. The results show the thermal lens which focal length varied with the radial coordinate r is not an ideal lens. Given the heat dissipation boundary conditions, the radial dependent focal length will be shortened when the pump power raised or the waist radius of the pump beam reduced, meanwhile the radial differences of the focal length will decrease when the pump power increased. For a Super-Gaussian profile pump beam, the higher the exponent number, the more similar to flat top the pump beam is, and the less the radial differences of the focal length are.     

光束控制系统热效应与球差对激光光束质量的影响

采用Strehl比、桶中功率、β参数和束宽描述远场光束质量，研究了光束控制系统热效应和球差对远场激光光束质量的影响.用四维仿真程序作了详细计算，给出了数值计算结果并进行了物理分析.研究表明，传输通道的热效应和正球差会使远场光强分布扩展，可聚焦能力下降，光束质量变差.有意义的是，当激光发射功率达到一定值时，合适选取负球差会在几何焦面得到比无球差时更高的峰值光强和更好的可聚焦能力.但在以前的工作中，由于焦移，类似的结论是在实际焦面上得出的.非线性热晕的存在是其物理原因，对此用数值计算例子作了说明. 关键词： 高功率激光 热效应 光束控制系统 球差     

用于X射线激光实验研究的列阵柱面透镜线聚焦系统

用平行排列的柱面透镜列阵与非球面会聚透镜组成一个新颖的激光线聚焦系统,它能获得光强分布非常均匀的、能应用于X射线激光实验研究的高功率激光焦线。实验证明该聚焦系统有良好的特性。     

Zonenplatten zur Öffnungsfehlerkorrektur und zur Kontrasterhöhung

A new type of zone plate is proposed whose purpose is to increase the contrast in electron micrographs. It consists of a circular aperture and a number of concentric rings, and it is arranged in the back focal plane of an electron objective lens with spherical aberration. The diameters of the outer rings are chosen such as to leave through only such parts of the wave surface which reach the image point with a phase delay of (2n+1)π relative to its paraxial part. The intensity distribution in the image plane is calculated for this zone plate and for a similar type of zone plate suggested byHoppe whose purpose is to reduce the resolution limit. Numerical calculations are made for the special case that the intensity is constant over the plane of the zone plate. The results show that an increase of resolving power may be expected if Hoppe's plate is used, and that the image contrast may be considerably increased by the new contrast plate without any serious reduction of resolving power.     

球差透镜聚焦部分相干光束获得局域空心光束

基于Collins公式,研究了空间相干度为零阶贝塞耳函数的部分相干光通过球差透镜后在几何焦平面附近的光强分布情况.研究表明,通过改变部分相干光的光谱相干度,球差系数可以得到平顶光束和局域空心光束.球差系数决定了最佳聚焦点的位置.当球差系数为正时,最佳聚焦点随着球差系数的增大向远离透镜的方向运动,甚至超过几何焦点;当球差系数为负时,最佳聚焦点随着球差系数绝对值的增大向靠近透镜方向移动.另外,在正负球差绝对值相等时,光强分布以几何焦点相对称.     

量子模型分析激光驻波原子透镜的像差

采用量子模型对近共振激光驻波原子透镜会聚Cr原子束、形成纳米量级光栅结构的物理过程进行数值模拟。为提高原子透镜的成像质量,对各种像差,如衍射像差、球差、色差、及原子束发散角、原子磁支能级、原子同位素等因素引起的像差进行了理论分析。模拟结果表明,相比粒子光学模型,量子模型能更加精确地描述原子会聚结果,且能解释原子在驻波光场中的衍射现象。在各种像差中,原子束发散角是最主要的因素,其影响大于衍射像差、球差、色差。原子的磁支能级、同位素等因素对像差影响很小,可以忽略不计。激光冷却准直原子束的方法可以减小束发散角引起的像差,压缩原子速度Vz分布范围的方法可以减小色差。     

高斯光束经过负球差透镜的聚焦

本文讨论高斯光束经过负球差透镜的聚焦，得到了聚焦光场轴上点的光强分布的表示式，并对其进行数值计算。数值计算结果表明，在负球差的情况下，得到光强的最大点位置（最佳聚焦点）相对于无球差情况，往透镜方向移动，并且，最佳聚焦点的光强较无球差时大，当Ｎｗ＝１，Ｎａ＝５，ｋＳ１＝－０．２时，得到的最佳聚焦点的光强是无球差时的１．３４倍。本文还讨论了透镜的菲涅尔数对聚焦光场分布的影响。结果表明，当透镜的菲涅尔数小于１时，球差对高斯光束的聚焦的影响可以忽略。     

Effects of low order atmosphere-turbulence aberrations on the vortex carrying Gaussian beam

The normalized intensity distributions at the focal plane of a vortex carrying Gaussian beam propagating in weak/middle turbulent atmosphere channel with z-tilt aberration, defocus aberration, astigmatism aberration or total turbulent aberration are discussed by numerical calculation. Our results show that the effect of z-tilt aberration on the intensity distribution of optical vortex beam is main effect of total turbulent aberration. In weak turbulent region, the effects of defocus and astigmatism aberration on the intensity distribution of a vortex carrying Gaussian beam can be ignored. In middle turbulent region, the effect of z-tilt aberration is still the most significant, but the effects of defocus and astigmatism aberrations, specially the effect of astigmatism on the center dark core of the intensity distribution at focal plane, can no longer be disregarded. Our results also show that for three low order aberrations, the beam with values of the topological charge, the beam have larger beam-radius and undergo smaller effects of z-tilt turbulent aberration on the doughnut distribution. For defocus aberration, the radius of the center dull of beam intensity increases with the values of topological charges increasing. And for astigmatism aberration, the beam with odd number topological charges, the center dull speck of beam intensity becomes to the bright speck. But for even number topological charges, the center dull speck of beam intensity maintains the dull one.     

Beam combination of a radial laser array: Flat-topped beam

An analytical expression of a radial laser array for flat-topped beam is derived based on the generalized Collins formula. The intensity distribution of the resulting beam focused by a lens at the focus plane, for phase-locked and nonphase-locked cases, is studied numerically. The effect of the Fresnel number and normalized radius on intensity distribution for phase-locked and nonphase-locked cases is also presented. It is found that intensity distribution for nonphase-locked case is much less sensible to the Fresnel number and normalized radius than that of phase-locked case.     

Effect of coma on the focusing of an apertured singular beam

Effect of coma on the intensity distribution and encircled energy of a singular beam, at the focal plane of a lens, is evaluated numerically by using Fresnel–Kirchhoff diffraction integral for two different values of topological charge. Results show lateral shift and flattening of the dark core. It is noticed that the singular beam with double topological charge is affected more by comatic aberration in comparison to the beam with single topological charge. We also verified our results by using optical transfer function approach.