激光等离子体温度时间演化特性

 用脉冲CO₂激光的10.6 μm光束击穿空气产生等离子体,使用光谱仪和ICCD采集等离子体辐射光谱,在局部热力学平衡近似下,利用相对谱线强度法对激光等离子体温度进行了计算。当激光器单脉冲能量为35 J时,选择NⅡ399.5 nm和NⅡ500.5 nm两条线状谱的相对谱线强度计算了不同延迟时间下等离子体温度。实验结果表明:在等离子体的不同位置,等离子体温度均随时间经历了明显的上升到饱和再到下降的过程,等离子体前沿的温度最先达到饱和,距离靶面最近的位置温度达到饱和所需时间最长。     

激光等离子体温度时间演化特性

用脉冲CO2激光的10.6 μm光束击穿空气产生等离子体,使用光谱仪和ICCD采集等离子体辐射光谱,在局部热力学平衡近似下,利用相对谱线强度法对激光等离子体温度进行了计算。当激光器单脉冲能量为35 J时,选择NⅡ399.5 nm和NⅡ500.5 nm两条线状谱的相对谱线强度计算了不同延迟时间下等离子体温度。实验结果表明:在等离子体的不同位置,等离子体温度均随时间经历了明显的上升到饱和再到下降的过程,等离子体前沿的温度最先达到饱和,距离靶面最近的位置温度达到饱和所需时间最长。     

基于脉冲复制的单脉冲激光对比度测量

为测量超短单脉冲激光的时间波形以及对比度信息,基于三阶强度相关原理,结合光脉冲复制技术,提出了基于脉冲复制的测量方法。对测量原理进行了详尽的理论分析。利用分步傅里叶和龙格库塔数值计算方法对测量方案做了模拟验证。基于脉冲复制的测量法能同时进行多窗口测量。通过拼接测量时间窗口,可以有效解决测量分辨率与测量时间窗口不能兼顾的问题,同时实现大时间窗口和高分辨率测量。通过将主脉冲与预脉冲分离到不同的测量窗口,避免了梯度衰减片的使用,且具有高对比度测量能力。     

基于脉冲复制的单脉冲激光对比度测量

为测量超短单脉冲激光的时间波形以及对比度信息,基于三阶强度相关原理,结合光脉冲复制技术,提出了基于脉冲复制的测量方法。对测量原理进行了详尽的理论分析。利用分步傅里叶和龙格库塔数值计算方法对测量方案做了模拟验证。基于脉冲复制的测量法能同时进行多窗口测量。通过拼接测量时间窗口,可以有效解决测量分辨率与测量时间窗口不能兼顾的问题,同时实现大时间窗口和高分辨率测量。通过将主脉冲与预脉冲分离到不同的测量窗口,避免了梯度衰减片的使用,且具有高对比度测量能力。     

Microdroplet evolution induced by a laser pulse

Interaction between high-power ultrashort laser pulse and giant clusters (microdroplets) consisting of 10⁹ to 10¹⁰ atoms is considered. The microdroplet size is comparable to the laser wavelength. A model of the evolution of a microdroplet plasma induced by a high-power laser pulse is developed, and the processes taking place after interaction with the pulse are analyzed. It is shown theoretically that the plasma is superheated: its temperature is approximately equal to the ionization potential of an ion having a typical charge. The microdroplet plasma parameters are independent of the pulse shape and duration. The theoretical conclusions are supported by experimental studies of x-ray spectra conducted at JAERI, where a 100-terawatt Ti-sapphire laser system was used to irradiate krypton and xenon microdroplets by laser pulses with pulse widths of 30 to 500 fs and intensities of 6×10¹⁶ to 2×10¹⁹W/cm².     

Monotonically chirped pulse evolution in an ultrashort pulse thulium-doped fiber laser

We report on monotonically positively chirped pulse operation of a hybridly mode-locked thulium fiber laser. Dispersion management was realized with a small-core, high-NA fiber providing normal dispersion in the 2 μm wavelength region. The laser delivered pulses with 0.7 nJ energy at the 1927 nm center wavelength and sub-500-fs pulse duration after compression.     

Characteristics of pulse evolution in mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser

We have numerically investigated the characteristics of the pulse evolution in a passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser with net anomalous cavity dispersion. For the fixed resonator configuration, single-, dual-, triple-, and quadruple-pulses are generated successively by enhancing the pump power or reducing the output ratio. The characteristics of the single or multiple pulses are investigated with various cavity lengths. The separation between the two coexisting pulses changes with the pump power due to the interaction between the soliton and the dispersive waves, and then the two randomly distributed pulses could finally evolve into a soliton pair with fixed separation. According to the results of the numerical simulation, the multiple pulses are found to be generated via pulse splitting and the pulse splitting threshold decreases with the increase of the cavity length.     

Temporal and spatial evolution of electron bunching in a one-dimensional pulse

A generalized form of bunching parameter for a one-dimensional electron pulse is defined and the formula is simplified into a symmetric form by considering completely elastic one-dimensional collisions. Using a two-parameter Poisson distribution, for electrons arrival times at the undulator beginning and for their initial positions within the pulse, the temporal and spatial evolution of mean value of bunching parameter are evaluated. For the special case, where the distribution parameters, t and x, are set to zero the generalized bunching parameter is reduced to the similar form used in previous free electron laser studies.     

激光脉冲时域整形及其对发射度的改善效果

利用脉冲堆积法对驱动激光脉冲进行了时域整形,并利用条纹相机测量到了理想的整形结果。在脉冲堆积法的基础上,给出了近似椭球体整形的方案。模拟结果表明：利用脉冲堆积法整形后得到激光脉冲驱动光阴极可以获得更小的发射度;对于测量到的半高全宽（FWHM）为3.82 ps的脉冲,8个子脉冲堆积比4个子脉冲堆积更为有利;此外,对激光脉冲作近似椭球体整形可以进一步降低束流发射度。     

激光脉冲时域整形及其对发射度的改善效果

 利用脉冲堆积法对驱动激光脉冲进行了时域整形,并利用条纹相机测量到了理想的整形结果。在脉冲堆积法的基础上,给出了近似椭球体整形的方案。模拟结果表明：利用脉冲堆积法整形后得到激光脉冲驱动光阴极可以获得更小的发射度;对于测量到的半高全宽（FWHM）为3.82 ps的脉冲,8个子脉冲堆积比4个子脉冲堆积更为有利;此外,对激光脉冲作近似椭球体整形可以进一步降低束流发射度。     

Temporal extension of stable glow discharges in fluorine-based excimer laser gas mixtures by the addition of xenon

The effect of addition of xenon on the long term homogeneity of discharges in F₂and ArF excimer laser gas mixtures was investigated in a small-volume discharge chamber. The gas mixture in the discharge chamber was preionized by X-rays. A special electrical excitation circuit containing a pulse forming line provided a long, square-shaped current pumping pulse of a predetermined duration to the discharge electrodes. The initiation and the development of the discharge was monitored via its fluorescence signal with an intensified CCD camera. We found that adding Xe up to partial pressures of 0.53 mbar extended the homogeneous phase of the discharge from 80 ns to approximately 200 ns in He/F₂as well as in He/Ar/F₂and Ne/Ar/F₂excimer laser gas mixtures. Monitoring of the ArF and XeF spontaneous emission signals showed that the formation of ArF excimers remained unaffected by the addition of xenon (up to 1.3 mbar) to the laser gas mixture.     

Time-domain master equation for pulse evolution and laser mode-locking

Using the well-known analogy between the space and time domains we derive a temporal master equation (ME) operator which can be applied to any cavity containing dispersive and filtering elements, phase or amplitude modulators, and one nonlinear element. The cavity properties are described in terms of 2 × 2 `KIJL' matrices. We show that this ME correctly reproduces the cavity mode structure in the linear limit. Numerical simulation of an actively mode-locked Fabry–Perot laser with the nonlinear medium at an end mirror gives results in excellent agreement with those found using the more conventional Huygens' integral method. Using a simple perturbation approach based on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) we also show that the field in this laser is soliton-like, and give analytic expressions for the soliton parameters.     

Enhancement of double auger decay probability in xenon clusters irradiated with a soft-x-ray laser pulse

The interaction of large Xe clusters with a soft x-ray laser pulse having a wavelength of 13.9 nm and an intensity of up to 2x10(10) W/cm2 was investigated using a time-of-flight ion mass spectrometer. The corresponding laser photon energy was sufficiently high to photoionize Xe 4d innershell electrons. It was found that Xe3+ ions (which result from double Auger decay of 4d vacancies) became the dominant final ionic product with increasing cluster size and x-ray intensity. This is in contrast to the results of synchrotron radiation experiments involving free Xe atoms, in which Xe2+ is the dominant resultant ion species. Possible mechanisms responsible for the enhancement of the double Auger transition probability in x-ray laser and cluster interaction are discussed.     

Plasma ion evolution in the wake of a high-intensity ultrashort laser pulse

Experimental investigations of the late-time ion structures formed in the wake of an ultrashort, intense laser pulse propagating in a tenuous plasma have been performed using the proton imaging technique. The pattern found in the wake of the laser pulse shows unexpectedly regular modulations inside a long, finite width channel. On the basis of extensive particle in cell simulations of the plasma evolution in the wake of the pulse, we interpret this pattern as due to ion modulations developed during a two-stream instability excited by the return electric current generated by the wakefield.     

等离子体削波纳秒激光脉冲波形测量

实验上采用比对方法测试了激光不经过固体与经过固体介质产生等离子体削波的脉冲波形信号,获得等离子体削波效应产生的脉冲削波倍数。实验结果表明,在波长1.064 m,脉宽1 ns,聚焦透镜焦距100 mm,薄石英片厚度100 m,约束等离子体的小孔直径80 m情况下,等离子体效应产生的脉冲削波倍数为12~14;分别改变石英片厚度和约束等离子体小孔直径,等离子体脉冲削波倍数不变;增加入射激光能量,脉冲削波倍数增加,且经过等离子体后的激光脉冲波形的后沿逐渐出现很陡的下降沿。在产生脉冲削波的截断点位置进行图形拼接重构得到激光脉冲波形信息。     

等离子体削波纳秒激光脉冲波形测量

实验上采用比对方法测试了激光不经过固体与经过固体介质产生等离子体削波的脉冲波形信号,获得等离子体削波效应产生的脉冲削波倍数。实验结果表明,在波长1.064 m,脉宽1 ns,聚焦透镜焦距100 mm,薄石英片厚度100 m,约束等离子体的小孔直径80 m情况下,等离子体效应产生的脉冲削波倍数为12~14;分别改变石英片厚度和约束等离子体小孔直径,等离子体脉冲削波倍数不变;增加入射激光能量,脉冲削波倍数增加,且经过等离子体后的激光脉冲波形的后沿逐渐出现很陡的下降沿。在产生脉冲削波的截断点位置进行图形拼接重构得到激光脉冲波形信息。     

Spatio-temporal evolution scenarios of femtosecond laser pulse filamentation in fused silica

We investigated the evolution of femtosecond laser pulses at different wavelengths corresponding to normal, zero, and anomalous regimes of group velocity dispersion (GVD) in fused silica. The laser pulse filamentation in different GVD regimes under the same similarity parameters was first considered. It was established numerically that the scenario of the pulse filamentation depends both on temporal factors, which are determined by pulse GVD and self-phase modulation, and spatial factors associated with Kerr self-focusing and plasma defocusing. In presence of strong normal GVD the dispersive stretching causes, a pulse power decrease followed by lowering of the intensity in filament, electron density reduction in plasma channel, and suppressing of the refocusing. For zero GVD the multipeak regime of radiation propagation is realized in the filament as a result of recurring self-focusings of powerful pulse tail, which was defocused in laser plasma. When GVD is anomalous a sequence of ??light bullets?? with duration about 10 fs forms in the filament. And the peak intensity in ??light bullet?? stays the same ?? 5 × 10¹³ W/cm². In the regime of anomalous GVD power is transferred from the pulse edges to its center, where the repeated self-focusings occur and form a ??light bullet?? sequence.     

Polarization dynamics of unidirectional optical pulse evolution in a laser amplifier

Polarization dynamics of optical pulses in an isotropic two-level medium is analyzed by solving an integrable system of evolution equations without using the slowly varying envelope approximation. The analysis is focused on the regime of unidirectional pulse generation in an initially inverted medium. Qualitative difference in polarization dynamics is revealed between few-cycle and quasi-monochromatic pulse propagation