Synchronization of Chaotic Intensities and Phases in an Array of N Lasers

A linear array of N mutually coupled single-mode lasers is investigated. It is shown that the intensities of N lasers are chaotically synchronized when the coupling between lasers is relatively strong. The chaotic synchronization of intensities depends on the location of the lasers in the array. The chaotic synchronization appears between two outmost lasers, the second two outmost lasers, etc. There is no synchronization between nearest neighbors of the lasers. If the number of N is odd, the middle laser is never synchronized between any lasers. The chaotic synchronization of phases between nearest lasers in the array is examined by using the analytic signal and the Gaussian filter methods based on the peak of the power spectrum of the intensity. It can be seen that the message of chaotic intensity synchronization is conveyed through the phase synchronization.     

Bistable phase locking in rocked lasers

We investigate analytically and numerically the dynamics of single mode lasers with periodic ac injection (rocked lasers). Such lasers show phase bistability as the phase of the light emitted by such lasers can lock to either of two values shifted by π. Locking regimes for different lasers are studied showing that the system response is strongly modified in class B lasers due to the influence of relaxation oscillations.     

1.3～1.55 m GAInNAsSb Lasers

The realization of long wavelength lasers on GaAs provides the opportunity to produce both much lower cost vertical cavity lasers and high power lasers. Results of work on the GaInNAsSb system to realize such lasers are described.     

二极管泵浦高能激光研究进展和展望

高能激光广泛应用于材料加工、科学研究、空间碎片清除、军事应用等领域。二极管泵浦高能激光具有结构紧凑,系统简单、全电驱无限弹仓的特点,近年来,各类二极管泵浦高能激光围绕着同时实现高功率、高效率、高光束质量这一总目标发展迅速。详细综述了国内外高平均功率块状固体激光、高功率可见光波段激光、高峰值功率激光、高功率光纤激光、碱金属蒸气激光等二极管泵浦高能激光的研究进展,并对其发展趋势进行了展望。     

Q‐switched and modelocked all‐fiber lasers based on advanced acousto‐optic devices

The interest in all‐fiber lasers is stimulated by the inherent advantages they have over bulk lasers in aspects such as heat dissipation and robustness. The performance of Q‐switched and modelocked fiber lasers can benefit enormously from the development of all‐fiber configurations. A fiber laser with strictly all‐fiber components can fulfil the requirements of mechanical stability, low maintenance, enhanced power efficiency, simplified assembly process, and low cost. In this framework, recent developments infiber acousto‐optic devices are reviewed that have demonstrated new possibilities for actively Q‐switched distributed feedback fiber lasers, modelocking lasers and doubly active Q‐switched modelocked lasers. The aim is to demonstrate the great potential of infiber devices for the active control of different types of fiber lasers.     

高能激光技术进展与面临的挑战

文章分析和比较了几种高能激光器技术发展现状和面临的挑战,以及各自可能适用的范围.特别对二极管抽运固体激光器和光纤激光器的几种束相干合成方法和光束质量评价方法进行了分析和讨论.二极管抽运固体激光器和光纤激光器近十年来异军突起,被人们看作是继化学激光器后的第二代高能激光器.光纤激光器进展要比二极管抽运固体激光器滞后5到10年.对几十万瓦以上的激光器来说,在相当长的时间内仍然要靠化学激光器.     

固体激光器的灯泵浦和二极管泵浦方式比较

对固体激光器的灯泵浦和二极管泵浦方式进行了比较,详细分析了不同类型的固体激光器所适用的泵浦方式.指出二极管泵浦固体激光器是今后固体激光器的发展趋势.     

锁模光纤激光器时变动力学

锁模激光器除了可以产生稳定的超短脉冲以外,还可产生一系列重要的非平衡态动力学过程.这些快速变化的动力学过程有助于理解超快激光器和相关非线性系统的动力学,也对超快激光器的稳定性设计有重要指导意义.随着超快探测技术的发展,锁模激光器超快动力学的研究取得了一系列突破.介绍了锁模激光器几个典型的非平衡态动力学过程,包括锁模启动...     

Silicon intersubband lasers

The critical design issues for unipolar silicon quantum-well intersubband lasers are investigated in this paper. Group IV lasing at near-infrared and middle-infrared wavelengths is analyzed for surface-emitting and edge-emitting geometries. Calculations show feasibility of SiGe/Si and SiGe/Si lasing. Silicon-on-insulator structures are proposed for index-guided lasers, vertical-cavity lasers and micro-cavity lasers     

High-power quantum well remote junction laser and its electrical noise characteristics

We designed and fabricated new structure lasers, the high-power AlGaAs/GaAs remote junction (RJ) single quantum well (SQW) semiconductor lasers whose p–n junction was separated from the active layer. The RJ lasers showed marked reduction of threshold current during early aging period. This reduction was accompanied by a decrease of non-radiative recombination centers in the active layer. For the RJ SQW lasers, the relation between the low-frequency electrical noise and the lifetime of devices is different from the conventional SQW lasers.     

水平腔面发射半导体激光器研究进展

近年来,水平腔面发射半导体激光器具有高功率、高光束质量及易封装集成等优良性能,已成为激光器领域的研究热点。本文详细阐述了几种水平腔面发射半导体激光器的结构设计、工作原理以及激光输出特性,并对该激光器国内外最新研究进展与发展现状进行了总结和论述。在此基础上,对该激光器的研究方向和发展趋势进行了分析与展望。目前,水平腔面发射半导体激光器的激光输出功率可达瓦级,美国Alfalight公司引入曲线形光栅的单一发射器输出功率可达73 W。随着应用领域的不断拓展,中远红外波段水平腔面发射激光器将成为未来的研究焦点。     

大功率半导体激光器的可靠性研究

对InGaAs/AlGaAs和InGaAsP/GaAs有源区含铝的915nm和无铝的808nm腔面镀膜及未镀膜的大功率半导体激光器进行了老化实验。在老化前通过综合参数测试仪测试两种激光器的斜率效率、阈值电流，发现有腔面膜的激光器比无腔面膜的激光器的阈值电流降低25％以上。在1.2倍阈值电流下，恒流老化40h左右，老化后再分别测试它们的阈值电流、功率参数，我们发现在老化后未镀膜的激光器的阈值电流和镀有腔面膜的激光器相比增加25mA以上，输出功率也比镀过腔面膜的减小到了原来的1／2，可见腔面保护对于延长激光器的寿命是很重要的。     

Synchronization and coherent addition of three pulsed fiber lasers by mutual injection and phase modulation

The coherent beam addition of pulsed fiber lasers is an effective way to improve the average power and the peak pulse power. We demonstrate a new architecture based on mutual injection and phase modulation to generate synchronous pulsed fiber lasers. Firstly, we realize the synchronization of the pulses of three fiber lasers using this technique. Secondly, coherent addition of three synchronous pulsed fiber lasers is obtained. Experimental results show that the three fiber lasers are phase locked and have good temporal and spatial coherence under mutual injection locking. This method can be extended to combine more beams.     

Passive Q-switching and mode-locking for the generation of nanosecond to femtosecond pulses

The passive and hybrid Q-switching and mode-locking of solid-state lasers, dye lasers, semiconductor lasers and gas lasers is reviewed. The dynamics of saturable absorbers and reverse saturable absorbers is illustrated. The nanosecond pulse generation by passive and hybrid Q-switching of low-gain active media is described. The picosecond and femtosecond pulse generation by passive and hybrid mode-locking in low-gain and high-gain active media is analysed. The performance data of passively and hybridly mode-locked cw femtosecond dye lasers are collected. The pulse shortening of ultra-fast pulses with saturable absorbers in intra-cavity and extra-cavity configurations is discussed.     

Lasing in random media

A random laser is a non-conventional laser whose feedback mechanism is based on disorder-induced light scattering. Depending on whether the feedback supplied by scattering is intensity feedback or amplitude feedback, random lasers are classified into two categories: random lasers with incoherent feedback and random lasers with coherent feedback. A brief survey of random lasers with incoherent feedback is presented. It is followed by a review of our recent experimental work on random lasers with coherent feedback, including measurement of the lasing threshold, lasing spectra, emission pattern, dynamical response, photon statistics, speckle pattern and the investigation of relevant length scales. Large disorder leads to spatial confinement of the lasing modes, that is the foundation for the micro random laser. Some theoretical models of random lasers with coherent feedback are briefly introduced. The study of random lasers improves our understanding of the interplay between light localization and coherent amplification.     

Recent progress in semiconductor lasers — cw GaAs lasers are now ready for new applications

Semiconductor lasers, first demonstrated in 1962, have spent a long time in development without finding many applications. (GaAl)As double heterostructure diode lasers with stripe structure have distinctive characteristics for cw operation with a pure mode, in addition to their compactness and ease of operation. Quick degradation of these lasers has been investigated and it was found that the degradation was caused by local crystalline defects produced by internal stresses and local weakness. Improvements based on the study have provided reliable lasers with an operating life of over several thousand hours. These new generation lasers will be useful for optical communications and other optical systems.     

LD泵浦Nd:YAG微片激光器

ＬＤ泵浦Ｎｄ：ＹＡＧ微片激光器结构简单紧凑，与半导体激光器相比，前者具有激光线宽窄、光束质量好、相干长度长等优点，因此在一些测量领域有着较好的应用前景。目前对ＬＤ泵浦Ｎｄ：ＹＡＧ微片激光器的实验工作主要是获得单频、单模连续输出和线性频率调制特性研究。本文综述了近几年来ＬＤ泵浦Ｎｄ：ＹＡＧ微片激光器的研究方向、成果及应用，主要介绍了各国对ＬＤ泵浦Ｎｄ：ＹＡＧ微片激光器的调频特性的研究状况     

正色散激光器中的增益导引孤子

采用非线性薛定谔方程模拟了全正色散介质激光器中实现脉冲锁模输出的动态过程,理论表明,不同于工作于净色散为负的孤子锁模激光器以及腔内具有色散延迟线净色散为正的色散管理孤子和自相似脉冲锁模激光器,在纯正色散介质构成的锁模激光器中,增益饱和和增益窄化对形成稳定的锁模脉冲起重要的作用,在两者的作用下脉冲形成增益导引孤子.采用不同的锁模方式在纯正色散光纤锁模激光器中得到了稳定的增益导引孤子锁模,实验结果与理论模拟一致. 关键词： 锁模 正色散 增益导引孤子     

GENERAL SYNCHRONIZATION OF CHAOS IN A SYSTEM OF TWO NON-IDENTICAL LASERS

General synchronization of the chaotic intensity fluctuations of two spatially coupled Nd:YAG lasers with pump modulation is investigated theoretically when the losses of the two lasers are different. It is shown that the chaotic synchronization still exists for medium coupling even though the two lasers are different. For strong coupling the system shows periodic motion of laser intensities. While for weak coupling, the two lasers oscillate independently. It is obvious that the increase of difference between the two lasers reduces the degree of chaotic synchronization.     

Monolithic two-dimensional surface emitting arrays of GaAs/AlGaAs lasers

Surface emitting lasers are of interest for various applications such as monolithic two-dimensional arrays and optical interconnects for integrated optics. Moreover, surface emitting lasers offer the advantage of wafer processing and testing. Several approaches for achieving surface emission are described. In addition, TRW s fabrication of a large monolithic two dimensional array of GaAs/AlGaAs surface emitting lasers which contains a total of 100 lasers is reported.