Variation of Xe concentration in a high pressure Ar/Xe laser with coaxial e-beam pumping

A series of measurements on the high pressure (up to 18 bar) coaxial e-beam pumped Ar/Xe laser has been made at high power loading (up to 25 MW/cm~2) for various Xe mole fraction in Ar. We found that the optimum laser gas composition in our system was 0.4% Xe in Ar which was independent of the total gas pressure. At the optimum gas composition the output energy increased with increasing total gas pressure up to 16 bar, but the intrinsic efficiency reached a maximum at the total gas pressure of 8 bar. It was also found that at the optimum power deposition for both the 2.63μm and 2.65μm transitions the ratio of the integrated optical energy to that of the 1.73μm transition had a minimum in most cases at the optimum gas mixture for various gas pressures. This ratio increased with increasing gas pressure. The experimental results suggested that besides the 2-body Xe quenching at high Xe fraction and electron collision mixing at high power depositions the heavy particle quenching from Ar at high gas press     

Performance improvement of an x-ray preionized XeCl laser of very small discharge volume

Increasing the preionization electron density is found to be an effective method for improving the output performance of discharge-pumped excimer lasers at high gas pressures when the power-supply voltage becomes a limiting factor. In a small volume (2 cm³), x-ray preionized discharge, orders of magnitude improvement in XeCl laser power output (up to 400 kW) and pulse energy (up to 26 mJ) over previously reported results have been found possible using this method. Modifications to the low energy x-ray source and discharge system leading to these improvements are described. Various laser output characteristics are also presented and discussed.     

Intrinsic efficiency and critical power deposition in the e-beam sustained Ar:Xe Laser

Experimental investigations on an e-beam sustained near infrared Ar:Xe laser have been carried out to determine the intrinsic efficiency at optimized conditions. A parametric study at different sustainer currents reveals a maximum output energy depending on current density. Up to 8 bar the optimized laser output power per unit volume increases linearly with 1.1MW/1 bar. Intrinsic efficiencies of up to about 8% are feasible.     

Characteristics of CO2 TE-amplifiers with different UV preionization at superatmospheric pressure with doping additives

The attainable maximum pressure and the small signal gain are compared at pressures up to 3 bar in a TE-CO₂ laser amplifier with two preionization systems. It is found that doping with tripropylamine increases the attainable pressure for glow discharges but decreases the small signal gain. At slightly superatmospheric pressure and low doping amount the simple lamberton-Pearson device gives the best results. For constant input energy the inversion grows with increasing total pressure.     

Multiwatt optically pumped ammonia laser operation in the 12–13 μm

Design and operating caracteristics of high pulse repetition rate NH₃ laser producing up to 20 W of average output power are described. The NH₃ laser, operating in the 12–13 μm region was optically pumped with a high pulse repetition rate TEA CO₂ laser. Dependences of the NH₃ laser output on the pump energy, ammonia and buffer gas pressures and pulse repetition rate have been studied. The conversion efficiency of up to 16% has been received.     

200 mJ半导体端面泵浦MOPA激光器研究

采用高功率激光二极管阵列(LDA)端面泵浦Nd:YAG激光棒方式, 结合凸凹非稳腔的设计，获得20 Hz运转条件下小束散角激光输出平均能量约为83 mJ。以该激光为振荡源，同样采用LDA端面泵浦Nd:YAG激光棒的方式进行能量放大，组成LDA端面泵浦振荡-放大(MOPA)激光器，最终获得重频频率20 Hz、平均能量＞200 mJ、发散角＜2.1 mrad、能量波动＜±2.5%的脉冲激光输出。该激光器光光转换效率约为14.6%，体积为175×91×49 mm3，质量＜1 kg，激光经8倍发射天线后发散角＜0.3 mrad。     

Tesla变压器与Blumlein线一体化装置设计

介绍了Tesla变压器与Blumlein线一体化装置的基本原理,设计了Tesla变压器及Blumlein线的参数。对装置中绝缘薄弱点进行了电场分析,结果表明:Blumlein线结构设计满足变压器油中绝缘的要求,可以保证装置安全稳定运行。最后对整个装置进行了全电路模拟,模拟结果表明:形成线充电电压可达1.37MV,此时,50Ω上可得到脉冲电压的辐值约为1.4 MV,脉宽约为40 ns,满足设计要求。     

Tesla变压器与Blumlein线一体化装置设计

介绍了Tesla变压器与Blumlein线一体化装置的基本原理,设计了Tesla变压器及Blumlein线的参数。对装置中绝缘薄弱点进行了电场分析,结果表明:Blumlein线结构设计满足变压器油中绝缘的要求,可以保证装置安全稳定运行。最后对整个装置进行了全电路模拟,模拟结果表明:形成线充电电压可达1.37 MV,此时,50 Ω上可得到脉冲电压的辐值约为1.4 MV,脉宽约为40 ns,满足设计要求。     

多倍脉宽输出的螺旋重入脉冲形成线

提出了一种螺旋线重入结构的脉冲形成线,可实现多倍脉宽输出。该结构由储能外线和重入内线组成;重入内线的外屏蔽圆筒内表面呈阶梯状,内筒为均匀螺旋线结构,实现简单;储能外线与Tesla变压器一体化。结合采用螺旋重入和二级重入结构,给出了一组10 GW功率、百ns脉宽的重入型脉冲形成线设计,形成线采用Midel 7131合成酯绝缘介质,外筒内径1 m,长度2 m。     

Oxygen concentration effects on laser-induced grating spectroscopy of toluene

The effects of variation in oxygen concentration on laser-induced grating spectroscopy (LIGS) signals from toluene vapour in nitrogen/oxygen mixtures is investigated. The modulation of LIGS signals arising from the interference of counter-propagating acoustic waves with a stationary density perturbation induced by pulsed excitation of toluene by frequency quadrupled radiation from a Nd:YAG laser has been measured as a function of oxygen partial pressure at total gas pressures up to 8?bar. The modulation depth or signal contrast is found to vary in an unexpected way with oxygen partial pressure and the behaviour is ascribed to energy transfer to excited singlet states of the oxygen molecule and subsequent collisional quenching. A simple model of the energy transfer dynamics is presented that reproduces the observed behaviour and the potential for using the signal contrast of LIGS signals as a measure of oxygen concentration is discussed.     

Fiber Optic Coupling of CW Linear Laser Diode Array

Based on a set of microoptics the output radiation from a continuous wave (CW) linear laser diode array is coupled into a multi-mode optical fiber of 400 μm diameter.The CW linear laser diode array is a 1 cm laser diode bar with 19 stripes with 100 μm aperture spaced on 500 μm centers.The coupling system contains packaged laser diode bar,fast axis collimator,slow axis collimation array,beam transformation system and focusing system.The high brightness,high power density and single fiber output of a laser diode bar is achieved.The coupling efficiency is 65% and the power density is up to 1.03×104 W/cm2.     

Three-level operation of a diode-bar-pumped Yb:S-FAP laser

We present an all solid-state Yb:S-FAP laser system running on the three-level laser transition at 985 nm. The pump source was a high fill-factor laser diode bar, with the output reformatted using a two-mirror beamshaping system to produce a rectangular pump beam that focused to a square spot. A nearly on-axis multipassing system was used to obtain four pump passes through a 1.6 mm Yb:S-FAP laser crystal. Gain-switched three-level laser output was achieved with an efficiency of 4.3% with respect to incident pump power. Electro-optic Q-switching produced 0.12 mJ pulses for a pump pulse energy of 11 mJ. Intra-cavity second-harmonic generation yielded a maximum pulse energy at 492.5 nm of 12 μJ.     

Hybrid erbium-doped fiber laser-pressure sensor utilizing ring cavity

This paper presents a hybrid erbium-doped fiber laser-pressure sensor system (HEDFL-PS) in a ring cavity configuration. The fiber laser sensor utilized an intracavity Bragg grating as pressure transducer and reflector. The HEDFL-PS can be used as a single wavelength high power laser or a high pressure sensor. The HEDFL-PS was tested using a shock tube facility and was able to measure up to 10 bar of static pressure. The sensor system shows solid linear response with sensitivity of 0.125 nm/bar and is stable over 30 min with negligible variation in output power and wavelength.     

细线径螺旋线长脉冲产生技术

提出了双路输出的螺旋脉冲形成线(PFL)结构,该结构内置用于充电的高耦合变压器,在螺旋PFL的两端各自输出一个脉冲,副路匹配输出时主路输出脉冲波形具有良好的平顶品质,主路输出脉冲能量占储能的大部分,解决了Korovin提出的螺旋PFL充电问题。对比分析双路输出的螺旋 PFL与SINUS-700/130两种技术路线,结果发现双路输出的螺旋 PFL改善了输出脉冲的平顶质量,输出功率提高29%,但是副路输出占用11%的储能,不易充分利用。     

Design and performance characteristics of a krypton chloride (λ = 222 nm) excimer laser

Development of a discharge-pumped krypton chloride (KrCl) laser operating at 222 nm wavelength is demonstrated. In this paper the design, successful realization and operating characteristics of KrCl excimer laser are reported. The laser is driven by a simple and efficient excitation technique using automatic UV pre-ionization with discharge-pumped self-sustained capacitor–capacitor (C–C) energy transfer circuit. The experimental investigations including output laser energy, temporal pulse parameters, emission spectra and beam profile of the KrCl laser were recorded. For high repetition rate operation, in-built, compact gas circulation system using tangential blower was incorporated. The laser was operated at 25 kV discharge voltage, gas mixture of 5 mbar HCl, 160 mbar kypton and neon as balance with a total gas pressure of ～2.5 bar. These experiments produced an efficient and reliable output energy of 25 mJ from an active volume of 60 cm³.     

Fiber Optic Coupling of CW Linear Laser Diode Array

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皮秒脉冲功率技术理论模型及其优化设计

为了产生100~500 ps,200~500 kV,1~10 kA数量级的皮秒放电脉冲,建立了一个皮秒脉冲发生器理论模型,并提出利用增益系数极值法,确定其最大兼容工作点,相对于纳秒脉冲成形线,皮秒脉冲成形线实现了90%,70%,85%的归一化电压增益、能量增益和放电功率增益。为了最大限度地降低皮秒脉冲成形线的载压时间,提高系统的绝缘安全因子,利用华罗庚0.618优算法,设计了电压传输系数。在纳秒脉冲成形线与皮秒脉冲成形线阻抗比值等于1.63条件下,在4倍和6倍皮秒脉冲成形线时间之内,归一化电压增益、能量增益和放电功率增益就可以分别达到94%,72%,89%与99%,53%,97%。     

皮秒脉冲功率技术理论模型及其优化设计

为了产生100~500 ps,200~500 kV,1~10 kA数量级的皮秒放电脉冲,建立了一个皮秒脉冲发生器理论模型,并提出利用增益系数极值法,确定其最大兼容工作点,相对于纳秒脉冲成形线,皮秒脉冲成形线实现了90%,70%,85%的归一化电压增益、能量增益和放电功率增益。为了最大限度地降低皮秒脉冲成形线的载压时间,提高系统的绝缘安全因子,利用华罗庚0.618优算法,设计了电压传输系数。在纳秒脉冲成形线与皮秒脉冲成形线阻抗比值等于1.63条件下,在4倍和6倍皮秒脉冲成形线时间之内,归一化电压增益、能量增益和放电功率增益就可以分别达到94%,72%,89%与99%,53%,97%。     

负载回路电感对低阻抗脉冲形成线输出波形的影响

介绍了一个基于带状脉冲形成线的低阻抗实验平台,针对该平台设计了两种不同类型结构的匹配负载,并分别进行了实验研究,得到了不同的输出脉冲波形,发现轨道结构的水负载具有很低的负载回路电感,适于作为低阻抗脉冲形成线的匹配负载。实验结果表明：在开关电感一定的情况下,负载回路电感是影响低阻抗形成线输出波形的决定性因素。对于0.5 Ω的带状脉冲形成线,只有将负载回路电感控制在30 nH以内,才能获得波形较好的输出脉冲,高压实验结果也验证了此结论。利用数值模拟的方法,分析了负载回路电感对不同阻抗形成线输出波形的影响,结果表明：随着形成线阻抗的增加,负载回路电感对波形的影响越来越小。     

激光触发变压器型螺旋脉冲调制器的同步控制

 建立了精确的激光触发变压器型脉冲调制器的同步触发系统。分别对脉冲调制器初级电脉冲触发控制信号与电脉冲输出时刻之间、变压器充电起始时刻与激光器Q开关触发信号之间、激光信号与脉冲调制器放电时刻之间的延时进行了测量,并分析其相互间时序关系;通过对变压器输出电压信号进行采样滤波后,利用比较器输出逻辑门电路（TTL）信号作为激光器Q开关触发信号,实现了脉冲形成线充电时间与激光触发主开关放电过程的同步控制。开展了激光触发脉冲功率调制器主开关的实验研究,在形成线充电电压-590 kV时,在假负载上得到-305 kV,20 kA的电脉冲,脉冲宽度126 ns,激光到达主开关时刻与开关导通时刻间延时35 ns。