200mJ光泵浦氨气太赫兹激光器北大核心CSCD

利用光栅选支调谐的TEA CO2激光器作为泵浦源设计了高能量脉冲光泵浦太赫兹激光器。太赫兹激光谐振腔由2m长的石英玻璃管、GaAs泵浦光输入窗和SiO2太赫兹光输出窗组成,氨气充入谐振腔内作为增益介质。太赫兹激光的波长由自主设计的金属线栅F-P干涉仪测量。实验中在多个波长处都获得了强烈的太赫兹光输出,其中151.5μm太赫兹光的输出脉冲能量高达204mJ,对应的泵浦光能量为32J。最后,还给出了利用151.5μm太赫兹光进行透视成像的实验结果。     

孔径光阑输出对太赫兹激光器模式特性的影响

孔径光阑耦合技术是大功率光泵气体太赫兹激光器的一种常用谐振腔设计方法。在不考虑波导对腔内模式形成的影响下,采用传输矩阵的特征向量法,针对孔径光阑耦合太赫兹谐振腔的腔内本征模式以及输出光束特性进行了数值模拟,得到了该种谐振腔在不同g参数下损耗最低的几种本征模式及其相应的衍射损耗;采用衍射积分与矩阵光学结合的方法计算了孔径光阑输出太赫兹激光的光束特性,得到不同本征模式的远场衍射光斑及发散角。研究工作为孔径光阑耦合的气体太赫兹激光器设计提供了理论参考。     

970 nm高功率光栅外腔可调谐半导体激光器

宽条形半导体激光器广泛应用于激光泵浦、激光加工等领域。针对宽条型半导体激光器输出光谱宽、调谐范围小的问题,采用衍射效率分别为28%和55%的反射式衍射光栅作为反馈元件构建了宽条形970 nm波长光栅外腔半导体激光器。研究了Littrow结构激光器参数对其性能（调谐范围、功率、阈值电流、线宽）的影响。实验结果表明,通过结构优化可得到窄线宽可调谐激光输出,适当地提高温度和使用较高衍射效率的光栅可增加激光器调谐范围,并且较高衍射效率的光栅可降低激光器的阈值电流。基于S偏振入射方式的光栅外腔激光器最大可实现27.87 nm的波长调谐范围,光谱线宽压窄至0.2 nm,输出功率可达1.11 W。     

半导体泵浦铷蒸气激光实现线偏振基模输出

采用2400 1/mm的平面光栅搭建Littrow外腔压窄半导体激光器输出激光线宽,获得中心波长可调的线宽0.16 nm的半导体激光作为铷蒸气激光的泵浦源.实验中,使用斩波器将泵浦光变为脉宽1 ms,重复频率100 Hz的重复脉冲形式,聚焦进长度为8 mm的铷蒸气泡,泡内充入79 kPa甲烷作为缓冲气体.进入铷蒸气泡的泵浦光峰值功率为1.84 W时,控制铷泡温度在125℃,获得了峰值功率17.5 mW的基模线偏振铷激光输出.     

基于掩埋光栅一级分布反馈结构的太赫兹量子级联激光器

结合理论和实验研究了掩埋光栅一级分布反馈太赫兹量子级联激光器中的模式竞争和功率特性。理论计算得到掩埋光栅腐蚀深度与两个带边模式的波导损耗、光学限制因子、辐射损耗以及辐射效率的关系。理论计算表明,掩埋光栅分布反馈结构可以通过改变腐蚀深度,保证激光器稳定单模工作在高频带边模式的同时,调节激光器的阈值增益以及辐射效率。实验和测试结果表明,激光器辐射波长和掩埋光栅的周期成正比,激光器可以在整个动力学范围内稳定单模工作。单模激光器的波长范围可覆盖86.2~91.7μm的范围,边模抑制比可达25 dB,最大输出功率为9.1 mW。该工作有助于高性能单模太赫兹激光器及锁相耦合激光器阵列的研制。     

频率可调谐光栅反馈式扩展腔二极管激光器的搭建与测试

采用Littrow结构,用半导体激光器加上光栅反馈组成外腔可调谐半导体激光器.利用光栅的1级衍射光,反射至激光管选择激光频率,获得红光或近红外波长的单纵模、窄带宽、连续可调谐的激光输出.光栅平面同时作为激光外谐振腔的一个端面,外腔的模式选择、光栅选频作用,以及激光管本身的模式选择(内腔模式)的共同作用,最终产生可调谐的单纵模激光输出.     

2.5THz环烯烃聚合物中空芯光子晶体光纤设计与实验

采用全矢量有限元法,仿真设计了一种工作在2.5THz频段的中空芯太赫兹光子晶体光纤,用环烯烃聚合物材料(COC)制备了光纤样品,利用CO2激光泵浦气体太赫兹源搭建了测试平台并对光纤的太赫兹波传输性能进行了测试。实测光纤最低损耗0.17dB/cm、平均损耗约0.5dB/cm,在弯曲90°情况下光纤传输损耗波动小于5%,具有良好的可弯曲性;光纤输出端口的模场分布测试结果表明,光纤是以主模进行传输,太赫兹能量很好地被束缚在光纤芯中。     

二阶分布反馈太赫兹量子级联激光器的光学特性

太赫兹量子级联激光器(THz QCL)的增益谱较宽,使用普通法布里-珀罗腔时一般为多纵模激射。二阶分布反馈THz QCL可利用表面辐射损耗消除模式简并,实现单纵模激射。采用耦合模理论对单面金属波导二阶分布反馈THz QCL基本参数的计算公式进行了理论推导,并研究了光栅结构参数对其耦合系数、阈值增益、光子密度及外微分量子效率等参数的影响。在以自然解理面为端面的波导上刻蚀占空比约为0.15、有源区深度为0.5μm的光栅时,激光器的阈值增益较低,腔内光子密度分布相对均匀,能够实现单纵模激射。     

结构紧凑的双波长连续波掺铒光纤激光器

多波长掺铒光纤激光器在波分复用光学通信等领域具有广阔的应用前景,引起了大量关注。为了满足不同场合的应用需求,本文报道了一种结构紧凑、基于非线性放大光纤环镜的双波长连续运转掺铒光纤激光器。该激光器采用全保偏光纤结构。除了光纤外,激光腔内只含有波分复用器、2×2光纤耦合器和光纤反射镜3个器件。非线性放大光纤环镜在腔内引入强度相关损耗,当腔内损耗随着入射光强增加而增加时,可以有效抑制腔内激光模式竞争。当强度相关损耗的抑制作用和激光模式竞争达到平衡时,激光器即可实现稳定的多波长输出。在260 mW泵浦功率下,激光器运转在双波长振荡状态,输出波长分别为1 560. 5 nm和1 563. 2 nm,边模抑制比达到46. 8 dB。随着泵浦功率的提高,激光器依次工作在单波长、双波长和三波长运转状态。该激光器结构简单,操作方便,具有很好的应用前景。     

聚合物太赫兹光纤布喇格光栅

研究了一种基于聚合物太赫兹光纤的太赫兹光纤布喇格光栅.通过二氧化碳激光器或紫外激光器点对点加工聚合物太赫兹光纤,实现聚合物太赫兹光纤直径的周期性调制,从而实现太赫兹光纤布喇格光栅的周期性折射率调制.基于有限元方法和光纤布喇格光栅相关理论,考虑反射峰波长、反射率、带宽、光纤长度、光纤直径和光纤直径形状变化程度等因素,研究了太赫兹光纤布喇格光栅的特性.理论模拟表明,反射峰波长和光栅周期存在与传统光学波段光纤布喇格光栅不同的非线性关系.     

Fast mode-hop-free acousto-optically tuned laser with a simple laser diode

A mode-hop-free tunable external-cavity Littrow diode laser with intracavity acousto-optic modulators (AOMs) has been built. The modes of the red laser diode without a special antireflection coating are shifted by varying the injection current. The external resonator modes and the grating selectivity are independently electrically alterable by two AOMs. Thus, a tuning of the external resonator over up to 1900 GHz is possible. A precise computer control of laser diode and AOMs allowed a single-mode tuning of the whole laser with a tuning range of 225 GHz in 250 s. Additionally, we demonstrated fast tuning over 90 GHz in 190 micros and a repetition rate of 2.5 kHz.     

A DC excited waveguide multibeam CO2 laser using high frequency pre-ionization technique

High power industrial multibeam CO₂ lasers consist of a large number of closely packed parallel glass discharge tubes sharing a common plane parallel resonator. Every discharge tube forms an independent resonator. When discharge tubes of smaller diameter are used and the Fresnel numberN ≪ 1 for all resonators, they operate in waveguide mode. Waveguide modes have excellent discrimination of higher order modes. A DC excited waveguide multibeam CO₂ laser is reported having six glass discharge tubes. Simultaneous excitation of DC discharge in all sections is achieved by producing pre-ionization using an auxiliary high frequency pulsed discharge along with its other advantages. Maximum 170 W output power is obtained with all beams operating in EH₁₁ waveguide mode. The specific power of 28 W/m is much higher as compared to similar AC excited waveguide multibeam CO₂ lasers. Theoretical analysis shows that all resonators of this laser will support only EH₁₁ mode. This laser is successfully used for woodcutting     

1 W tunable near diffraction limited light from a broad area laser diode in an external cavity with a line width of 1.7 MHz

A novel unstable external cavity for a broad area laser diode is presented. The cavity is based on a V-shaped setup that improves the slow axis beam quality by coupling the internal modes of a gain guided laser diode. The novelty here is the compact unstable resonator design without lenses in direction of the slow axis. For frequency stabilisation and to narrow the line width of the laser diode emission a diffraction grating in a Littrow configuration is used. With this setup up to 1 W of near diffraction limited light with a beam quality of M² ? 1.3 and a line width of 1.7 MHz could be achieved. The external cavity laser was tunable over a range of 35 nm (FWHM) around the center wavelength of 976 nm.     

Analysis of a separate 1319 and 1338 nm Nd:YAG laser with a blazing grating

We develop a separate 1319 and 1338 nm Nd:YAG laser system with a blazing grating (600 lines/mm). The resonator of this system has a Littrow grating configuration and a highly reflective mirror, in which the zero-order diffraction of the grating acts as the laser output. By virtue of the wavelength-dependent reflectivity of the grating, a single-wavelength laser at 1319 nm or 1338 nm can be realized. In view of the laser rate equations and using the distribution of the blazing grating, we analyze the oscillation conditions providing single-wavelength laser operation in the system.     

Experimental results of a high Q quasioptical reflection cavity

A quasi-optical reflection cavity intended to be used as the resonant load of a submillimeter wavelength oscillator has been designed, constructed, and tested. The resonator consists of three elements in cascade: a high Q, high finesse folded Fabry-Perot resonator, a lower Q, low finesse Fabry-Perot resonator, and a Littrow mounted diffraction grating. The resonator exhibits a Q of 6600 and 2.5 dB of loss at 63 GHz. The design can be scaled to 1 THz, where waveguide structures become impractical, to serve as the resonator for high frequency quantum well resonant tunneling device oscillators.     

Diffractive scanning mechanism for laser marker

We present a new idea of marking based on spectral properties of CO₂ laser radiation. The idea has been illustrated on RF excited waveguide CO₂ lasers in different configurations: single channel, multi-waveguide and slab-waveguide ones. The pulse operation of the laser has been considered as well. The advantage of the presented diffraction marker is avoiding complicated and fallible mechanical elements. The only executive elements of the marker are a diffraction grating and a piezoceramic transducer. It has been shown that the slab-waveguide configuration of the RF excited CO₂ laser equipped with an unstable resonator is the most promising configuration for application to the diffraction marker.     

飞秒激光用多层介质膜脉宽压缩光栅的设计

以薄膜光学的干涉理论和衍射光学的傅里叶模式理论为基础，给出了0.8μm飞秒激光器用多层介质膜脉宽压缩光栅的理论设计；设计采用H3L(HL)^9H0.5L2.4H的多层介质膜为基底，当刻蚀后表面浮雕结构的占宽比为0.35，线密度为1480线/mm，槽深为0.2μm，顶层HfO₂的剩余厚度为0.15μm时，对于Littrow角度(36.7°)和TE波模式入射的衍射光栅其-1级衍射效率达到95％以上. 关键词： 飞秒激光 脉宽压缩光栅 多层介质膜     

高损伤阈值矩形石英闪耀光栅的设计分析

 采用模态法分析了矩形亚波长石英闪耀光栅的设计原理,给出了1.06 μm工作波长的矩形亚波长石英闪耀光栅的设计示例。研究表明,要设计性能优良的-1级透射闪耀光栅,应使0/1阶传输模的累积相位差为π的奇数倍。设计的透射闪耀光栅能够使TM偏振光和TE偏振光获得近100%的-1级衍射效率,且具有较大的加工容差,较宽的入射波长和入射角变化适应范围。     

半导体泵浦铷蒸气激光器出光实验

针对中心波长780 nm的商用连续波半导体激光器,使用斩波器将连续激光变为脉冲输出形式,用2400 line/mm的平面全息光栅搭建Littrow外腔将线宽压窄至0.2 nm以下。采用透镜组对线宽压窄后的半导体激光进行光束整形,半导体激光经线宽压窄和光束整形后,经透镜聚焦进长约8 mm的铷蒸气泡进行半导体泵浦碱金属激光实验。首次出光得到17.5 mW的基模线偏振铷激光;在最新的改进实验中,半导体泵浦铷激光输出功率已达到2.8 W。