电激励连续波HF/DF选线化学激光器光轴的选择

 在一单放电管电激励连续波HF/DF化学激光器平台上，利用一级振荡、一级输出的光栅选线色散腔结构，分别在H2喷注孔平面下游0.5 mm和2.0 mm两个位置处测试了此激光器的选线性能。谱线指认的结果证实，即使在mm级的流场方向增益长度范围内，选线激光器要获得宽的谱线覆盖范围并优化各支谱线的功率谱分布，光轴到氢气喷注孔平面的距离是一个重要的调节参量，随着此距离的增大，高振动态之间的跃迁越来越弱，而低振动态之间的跃迁则越来越强。     

化学激光器燃烧室两步反应法的实验研究

 在环柱型增益发生器实验系统燃烧室的设计中,将主稀释剂He从两个不同的区域注入燃烧室,其中一部分与D2预混以后通过D2喷注孔注入,另一部分通过主喷管叶片后端的后向喷注孔注入。讨论了不同区域的主稀释剂流量的变化对激光器特性的影响。实验结果表明：后He流量改变时,激光器的功率变化及点火稳定性等明显优于前He流量改变的情况。若要增加主稀释剂比例,应优先考虑调整后He。     

电激励红外多波段化学激光器中稀释剂注入方式对激光输出的影响

 以DF为例,在一台单放电管电激励红外多波段激光器上测试了两种稀释剂注入方式下激光器的输出特性。激光器输出功率、模式分布、光谱分布的测量结果表明,在常规注氦方式下,在放电管末端引入一路氦气可以增加功率输出,拉长顺流增益区长度,加强高振动能级间的跃迁。经分析原因可能在于F原子壁面复合损失的减少、增益区流速的增加以及去激活效应的减弱。     

中、远红外双波段激光器发射光谱测量与评估

在分析中远红外双波段(氟化氘与一氧化碳)激光器发射光谱的基本特征和分光型谱仪存在高级次光谱混叠等问题的基础上,选定Tensor37干涉型遥测光谱仪并利用黑体标定出仪器响应函数;对中、远红外双波段激光器光谱进行了模拟测量和实际测量,分析评估了双波段激光器的谱线成分、峰值变化、测量精度和相对强度等,为双波段激光器的介质参数计算、运转参数优化以及红外应用提供有效数据。     

高恢复压力氟化氘增益发生器技术研究

增益发生器是影响高能氟化氘(DF)化学激光器恢复压力的核心组件,采用传统增益发生器的DF激光器尾气恢复压力约为6.7 kPa。设计了一种紧凑化TRIP型增益发生器,突破了高腔压运转、主气流气幕和激射腔边壁回流抑制等关键技术,实现了DF激光器尾气恢复压力的大幅提高。实验结果表明,在面积比流量为1.3~3.3 g·s-1·cm-2的范围内,随着增益发生器面积比流量的提高,激光器尾气恢复压力有效提高,面积比功率持续增加;在面积比流量为3.3 g·s-1·cm-2条件下,DF激光器可以实现26.7 kPa背压(海拔10 km大气压)下的高效运行。     

基于双增益芯片合束的超宽带可调谐中红外激光器

设计了一种基于双增益芯片合束的超宽带可调谐中红外激光器,该激光器以Littrow结构为基础,采用中心波长分别为4.0μm和4.6μm的两个量子级联增益芯片提供光增益,通过4.2μm低通高反分束片合束后,将增益光入射到300 lines/mm的闪耀光栅形成光反馈,两个量子级联增益芯片通过交替互补的工作方式实现了3～5μm的超宽谱调谐。在25℃温控和303 mA注入电流下,该激光器在34.54°～46.50°的闪耀光栅旋转角度下工作,波长调谐范围为3779～4836 nm（包括179 nm波长调谐空白区间）,最大输出光功率为14.12 mW,边模抑制比为20 dB。该激光器具有结构紧凑、调谐范围超宽的优点,可为研制便携式模块化的中红外激光器提供参考。     

石墨烯在全固态激光器中的应用

正1.引言全固态激光器(all solid state lasers)是指用激光二极管(laser diode,LD)代替闪光灯泵浦固体激光增益介质的激光器,也称为激光二极管泵浦的固体激光器(laser diode pumped solid state lasers,LDPSSL或DPL)。它集两种激光器的优势于一体,具有转换效率高、输出能量大、峰值功率高、工作介质覆盖的波段广及运转方式多样等优点,与被动可饱和吸收体相结合,可以实现脉冲激光运转,已成为新的优质脉冲激光光源。     

GaAlAs-GaAs半导体激光器增益参数的研究

通过对半导体激光器发射光谱的计算可获得激光器的增益谱.本文研究了不同电流注入下激光器的增益特性;激光器的峰值增益系数Gmax在阈值电流以下随注入电流的增大而提高,也随结温的升高而下降.     

2μm人眼安全波段太阳光抽运激光器的理论研究

太阳光直接抽运激光器在空间光通信、遥感等领域有着重要的潜在应用,但是一直以来人们对太阳光抽运激光器的研究局限于以掺Nd3+粒子为增益介质的1μm波段.通过对现有固体激光工作物质的吸收谱进行分析,发现掺Tm3+离子在太阳辐射较强的可见光波段具有强的吸收峰,使2μm人眼安全波段实现太阳光直接抽运激光输出成为可能.本文对Tm:YAG和Tm:YAP两种常见晶体的吸收谱与太阳光谱匹配度进行了分析计算,得出两种材料用于太阳光抽运激光器的阈值抽运功率密度分别为1.14和1.434 kW/cm3.选择与抽运阈值功率密度低的Tm:YAG晶体作为增益介质,使用TracePro软件建立太阳光抽运激光器的二级抽运模型,并对模型进行优化,得到了锥形腔窗口与菲涅耳透镜的最佳距离、晶体棒的最佳长度以及锥形腔最佳锥度.本文的工作为实现太阳光直接抽运2μm激光输出做了理论上的准备.     

2μm波段双波长间隔可调谐光纤激光器

提出并实验研究了一种2μm波段全光纤间隔可调双波长光纤激光器.该激光器采用传统的环形腔设计,以最大输出功率33dBm的1 565nm光纤激光器为泵浦源,4m单模掺铥光纤为增益介质,腔内为嵌入多模干涉滤波器的Sagnac环的复合滤波结构.该复合滤波器可实现间隔可调谐,高边模抑制比的双波长激光信号输出.通过泵浦功率的控制和对复合滤波器中偏振控制器的调节,实现双波长3nm到80nm间隔可调的激光输出,边模抑制比为60dB,线宽为0.2nm,功率稳定度为±1.5dB/h,双峰能量差小于4dB.     

Effects of pressure ratio on population inversion in a DF chemical laser with concurrent lasing

A numerical simulation is presented for investigating the effects of pressure ratio of D₂ injector to supersonic nozzle on the population inversion in the DF chemical laser cavity, while a lasing concurrently takes place. The chemical laser is generally used for the industrial process and manufacturing as well as the military weapon system, which requires high power characteristic of laser system rather than the others. The population inversion is absolutely needed to generate the laser beam and is non-equilibrium process. The laser beam is generated between the mirrors in the cavity and it is important to obtain stronger population inversion and more uniform distribution of the excited molecules in the laser cavity in order to produce high-power laser beam with good quality. In this study, these phenomena are investigated by means of analyzing the distributions of the DF excited molecules and the F atom used as an oxidant, while simultaneously estimating the maximum small signal and saturated gains and power in the DF chemical laser cavity. For the numerical solution, a fully conservative implicit method and a second order total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme are used with the finite-volume method (FVM). An 11-species (including DF molecules in various excited states of energies), 32-step chemistry model is adopted for the chemical reaction of the DF chemical laser system. The results are discussed by comparison with two D₂ injector pressure cases; 192 and 388.64 torr. Major results reveal that in the resonator, stronger population inversions occur in the all transitions except DF(1)-DF(0), when the D₂ injection pressure is lower. But, the higher D₂ injection pressure provides a favorable condition for DF(1)-DF(0) transition to generate the higher power laser beam. In other words, as the pressure of D₂ injector increases, the maximum small signal gain in the v_1-0 transition, which is in charge of generating most of laser power, becomes higher. Therefore, the total laser beam power becomes higher.     

Review of theoretical gain-optimization studies in 10.6µm CO2-N2 gasdynamic lasers

A comprehensive theoretical analysis of optimization of gain in CO₂-N₂ gasdynamic laser employing wedge or conical or hyperbolic nozzles with either H₂O or He as the catalyst is presented. After a review of previous work, the usual governing equations for the steady inviscid quasi-one-dimensional flow in a supersonic nozzle of a gasdynamic laser are used to obtain similar solutions for the various flow quantities, which variables are subsequently used to optimize the small-signal gain on theP(20) line of the (001) → (100) transition of CO₂ at wavelength 10.6μm. The corresponding optimum values like reservoir pressure and temperature and nozzle area ratio also have been predicted and presented in the form of graphs. The analysis predicts that employing of 2D-wedge nozzle results in higher gain values and the CO₂-N₂-H₂O gasdynamic laser employing 2D-wedge nozzle is operationally the best laser system for which the optimum value as high as 3.1 m⁻¹ gain can be obtained.     

An injection-locked single-mode tea CO2 laser for SMM laser pumping

A D₂O laser has been developed for collective Thomson scattering measurements of ion temperature in high temperature plasmas. A pulse duration and a spectral width of a high power D₂O laser has been successfully controlled for this purpose, by using a TEA CO₂ laser injection-locked by an etalon-tuned TEA CO₂ laser as a pump source.     

Tunable te-CO2 laser-pumped formaldehyde far-infrared lasers: Offsets, assignment, and superfluorescence

Sixty and three absorption transitions in D₂CO and H₂CO, respectively, have produced a number of far infrared laser lines when they are pumped by an etalon-tuned TE-CO₂ laser. Almost all the absorption transitions pumped previously by a free runing TE-CO₂ laser have been efficiently pumped by the etalon tuned CO₂ laser and found to have offset within ±500 MHz from the line-center of the relevant CO₂ pump lines. 22 (1) absorption and 63 (4) emission lines of D₂CO (H₂CO) are assigned. Some of these lines have generated superfluorescence. In paticular, the D₂CO 319-m line pumped by CO₂-9P(32) delivered an output energy of approximately one half that of the well-known D₂O 66-m. It is shown that a large electric dipole moment and an appreciable amount of fractional population in the lower level of the pump transition of this line are responsible to the superfluorescence.     

光泵重水气体产生THz激光的半经典理论分析

从半经典密度矩阵理论出发，采用三能级系统模型对光泵重水气体产生太赫兹激光进行了理论分析，求解得到了脉冲光泵重水气体分子产生太赫兹激光过程中激光信号增益系数G_s和抽运光信号被吸收系数G_p的表达式，通过迭代法对太赫兹激光信号的输出光强进行了数值计算，理论计算得到的频谱特性曲线完全符合受激Raman辐射的频谱特性，即频谱宽度较大、输出光强随抽运失谐量的改变而变化明显等特征.在脉冲激光抽运受激Raman辐射过程中，工作介质D₂O气体分子的偶极矩由于受到抽运脉冲光场的扰动发生变化，在频谱特性曲线中表现为受激辐射THz信号的谱线发生了分裂.理论计算结果与已报道的实验结果能较好地相符.     

Research on a middle infrared and long infrared dual-band laser

We propose a continuous-wave(CW)middle infrared(MIR)and long infrared(LIR)dual-band laser for the calibration and effect research of infrared detecting and imaging systems.A total output power of 18 W is achieved by the proposed dual-band laser through one DF gain medium module and one parallel placed CO2 gain medium module using a common stable resonator and output mirror with nominal transmissivities of ～5%in the MIR band and～10%in the LIR band.Spectra of dual-band laser are acquired.The power extracting efficiency of this dual-band laser can be significantly improved,as validated by a single-band test of optimized parameters.     

Generation and detection of tunable ultrashort infrared and far-infrared radiation pulses of high intensity

We report on generation and detection of intense pulsed radiation with frequency tunability in the infrared and far-infrared spectral regions. Infrared radiation is generated with a transversally electrically excited high pressure CO₂ laser. A laser pulse of a total duration of about 300 ns consisted, due to self mode locking, of a series of single pulses, some with pulse durations of less than 450 ps and peak powers larger than 20 MW. Using these pulses for optical pumping of a Raman D₂O laser, trains of short far-infrared pulses with durations less than 400 ps were obtained. For detection a new ultrafast superconducting detector was used.     

Construction of a photon drag detector for evaluating the performance of a CO2 laser amplifier

In this article, the construction of P-type germanium (Ge) photon drag detector which is used to characterize the gain and output powers of a 10 W CO₂ laser and a CO₂ laser amplifier is described. Gain and laser amplifier output power versus laser input power measurements collected at 4.7 mbar and 12.0 mbar amplifier tube pressures are discussed. Moreover, measurements relating the CO₂ laser output power to the laser tube discharge current are provided at 6.9 mbar and 7.3 mbar tube pressures.     

Optically pumped high-pressure DF-CO2 transfer laser

Pulsed sealed off CO₂ laser operation at 19 atm gas pressure has been demonstrated by pumping DF/CO₂/He mixtures with radiation from a pulsed DF laser. DF acts as an absorber for the pumping radiation, and the CO₂ upper laser level is populated via subsequent energy transfer. CO₂ pulse energy at 19 atm was 0.5 mJ corresponding to a photon conversion efficiency of 4% measured relative to the number of absorbed pumping photons.