600 kV波形可调快前沿脉冲源的研制

介绍了一种波形可调的高电压快前沿脉冲源。该脉冲源由Marx发生器、脉冲成型组件、主开关、匹配负载、分流电阻、串联电感等部件构成。各部件自成一体,呈模块化分布。以Marx发生器作为初级储能,通过调节发生器输出端分流电阻、串联电感及脉冲成型组件等模块,可以输出包括双指数波和方波在内的5种脉冲波形。输出脉冲幅值在200~600 kV范围内可调,最小脉冲前沿可达2 ns。     

Dual-wavelength bandwidth-narrowed output of a high-power diode laser using a simple external cavity

Using an external cavity consisting of an etalon and a mirror, dual-wavelength operation of a high-power broad-area multi-stripe diode laser is achieved. The reflection of the etalon is used as the output beam of the system. The free-running bandwidth of the laser diode is about 2.0 nm. At dual-wavelength operation, the bandwidth of each wavelength component is narrowed to about 0.07 nm, while the space between them is 1.65 nm, determined by the FSR of the etalon. We obtain an available dual-wavelength output power of 2.0 W at the drive current of 6.5 A. The power ratio of the components at two different wavelengths can be changed by changing the temperature of the diode laser. To tune the wavelength of the dual-wavelength output, the temperature of the laser diode and the tilt angle of the etalon are changed simultaneously PACS 42.55.Px; 42.60.Fc; 42.60.Da     

Spectral characteristics for a fiber grating external cavity laser

A numerical investigation has been carried out on the influence of the antireflection (AR) coating of laser, the coupling efficiency of laser and fiber (), and the reflectivity of fiber grating (R _g) on the side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of the fiber grating external cavity laser (FGECL). The FGECL was fabricated by the assembly of the multimode Fabry–Perot (FP) laser chip and fiber grating. The results showed that the FGECL with a lower AR coating, higher and R _g exhibited a better SMSR. A comparison of the SMSR dependence on the and R _g showed that SMSR increased more rapidly with increasing than SMSR for R _g. These spectral characteristic studies of the SMSR dependence on the device parameters of the AR coating, , and R _g may provide useful device designs for the practical fabrication of a FGECL for use in dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) applications.     

体布拉格光栅外腔半导体激光器的光栅旋转角度容差

采用步进电机控制光栅角度,对200 m和600 m圆柱透镜准直的体布拉格光栅（VBG）外腔单管C封装半导体激光器进行了系统研究。实验结果表明:激光二极管（LD）驱动电流越大,准直效果越好,VBG的角度调整容差越小;快轴方向的准直效果越好,慢轴方向的光栅调节角度容差越大;对于衍射效率28%、厚1.4 mm的光栅,LD快轴发散角为7.3 mrad时,快轴方向的角度容差不大于3.2 mrad,慢轴方向的角度容差较快轴大约一个数量级。     

Study on a broad-area laser diode with external cavity feedback

The external cavity feedback of a broad-area laser diode is investigated. In Fourier optic methods, the inserted prism in an external cavity can be interpreted as a spatial filter in the Fourier plane of the laser diode. The transverse mode can be selected by changing the position of the filter. As the result of a self-consistency theoretical analysis, the output beam of the external cavity has a single-lobed far-field profile. It agrees well with the experiment result. The beam times-diffraction-limit-factor M² is measured to be 1.16.     

Broadband tunable external cavity laser using a bent-waveguide quantum-dot superluminescent diode as gain device

A broadband tunable grating-coupled external cavity laser is realized by employing a self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum-dot (QD) superluminescent diode (SLD) as the gain device. The SLD device is processed with a bent-waveguide structure and facet antireflection (AR) coating. Tuning bandwidths of 106 nm and 117 nm are achieved under 3-A and 3.5-A injection currents, respectively. The large tuning range originates essentially from the broad gain spectrum of self-assembled QDs. The bent waveguide structure combined with the facet AR coating plays a role in suppressing the inner-cavity lasing under a large injection current.     

Modulation enhancement of a laser diode in an external cavity

The influence of Zn-atom additive on ‘pure’ copper vapor laser output characteristics is studied. The laser pulse width, energy and power are found to increase under the diffusion of zinc atoms from a zinc-containing reservoir into the discharge of the copper-vapor laser at temperatures above 500°C. Additional absorption experiments and calculations are consistent with the conclusion that not only optical resonant pumping by the 213.9-nm Zn I line, but also other processes, should be taken into account to explain the effects of additive influence.     

Tunable single-mode Fabry-Perot laser diode using a built-in external cavity and its modulation characteristics

A tunable single-mode laser is obtained by using a weakly coupled cavity structure involved in a coaxially packaged Fabry-Perot laser diode. The cleaved end facet of the coupling fiber becomes an optical reflector and forms an external cavity with a laser facet. The single-mode oscillation condition is controlled and stabilized by tuning the operating temperature. The tuning range is about 10 nm with the side-mode suppression ratio of more than 27 dB when the temperature changes from 11.5 degrees C to 25 degrees C. Direct modulation characteristics were investigated, and our results show that a shorter external cavity can bear deeper modulation depth.     

半导体激光器列阵在外腔下的光谱特性

使用普通高反镜作为19个单元的半导体激光器列阵(LDA)的外腔,通过调节高反镜的位置和角度,使LDA发出的光反馈回有源层,从而压窄了输出光谱并降低了LDA的阈值电流.实验中,运行于外腔下的LDA在不同的驱动电流下的输出光谱均被压窄到了原来的1/10左右,阈值电流从7 A降到了5.5 A,并且在9 A的偏置电流下输出功率提高了2倍.     

Extended temperature tuning of an external cavity diode laser

We describe the construction and operation of an external cavity diode laser in which the diode is cooled to -45 °C. This technique allows us to pull the wavelength of a nominally 782 nm diode to operate at 766.7 nm, a change of over 15 nm. The important aspects of our design are its ease and low cost as compared to other designs of changing the operating wavelength of laser diodes. We provide background information on thermal design with multiple TECs so the reader can extend this example for use in their own applications. PACS 42.60.By; 42.62.Fi; 32.80.Pj     

A self-seeded fiber laser incorporated with a fiber Bragg grating external cavity semiconductor laser

A self-seeded fiber laser incorporated with a fiber Bragg grating external cavity semiconductor laser (FBG-ECL) and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) were reported in this paper. The MZI provided a Q-switching with response time in the order of micro-seconds. The FBG-ECL provided narrow pulses as seeds to shorten the Q-switched pulses. Experimentally, pulse width of 0.8 μs was measured, which was one fifth of the pulse width without self-seeding.     

利用外腔改善半导体激光器列阵的远场特性

采用一个由快轴准直透镜和一个高反射率平面镜组成的简单外腔,在腔长为几个cm时实现了半导体激光器列阵中部分单元的锁相运行;DLA远场出现了3个瓣,每瓣发散角为10 mrad左右,对比度为50%;通过控制部分单元的输出,可以抑制旁瓣的能量.     

Frequency tunable beat note from a dual-polarization emitting external cavity diode laser

A method is presented to generate tunable millimetre waves by photomixing one TE mode and one TM mode of a dual-polarization external cavity diode laser emitting in the 1.55 μm wavelength domain. Beat notes in the frequency range 0.2 to 60GHz have been measured where the upper frequency is limited by the detector system bandwidth only. The frequency and amplitude stability are investigated. Typical beat intensity fluctuations are within 0.5 dB. The frequency stability is around 5MHz. The relative intensity noise of a TE and a TM mode was measured and a correlation found around multiples of the cavity roundtrip frequency and in the low frequency regime. Theoretical calculations show qualitative agreement with the measurement results. This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Efficient Tm:YLF laser with a volume Bragg grating recycle pumped by laser diode

By using a pump recycling configuration, we presented a high efficient diode-pumped Tm:YLF laser with a volume Bragg grating. When the incident pump power was 33.1 W, a maximum output power of 11.1 W at 1907.8 nm with full width at half maximum of 0.6 nm was obtained. The slope efficiency with respect to the incident pump power was 44.8%, and the optical-to-optical efficiency was 33.5%. In addition, the VBG-based Tm:YLF laser was employed as a pumping source of Ho:YAG laser, the maximum output power of 4.7 W with a slope efficiency of 67.0% was obtained, corresponding to Tm-to-Ho conversion efficiency of 51.6%.     

Filter characteristics of a chirped volume holographic grating

We compare and analyze the filter properties of transmission-type volume holographic gratings, especially the dispersion characteristics for uniform and chirped gratings. It is theoretically and experimentally shown that the dispersion characteristics can be controlled by introducing one-dimensional chirping to the volume grating in a photorefractive crystal. The filter response including output power and dispersion comes from a combined effect of the spatial spectra of the grating structure, input beam, and output-coupling fiber mode. Filter responses can be designed by controlling these parameters for optical communication applications.     

外腔锁相宽发光区二极管激光列阵研究

利用简单的外腔,实现了具有宽发光区的商用半导体二极管激光列阵(DLA)的外腔锁相。光谱测量表明,DLA的谱宽由自由运行时的1.9 nm压缩到了0.16 nm,峰值波长由803.8 nm调整到805.5 nm;实测远场光瓣间角距等于1.6 mrad,即波长与发光单元间距之比,表明列阵运行在基超模(或最高阶超模);峰谷结构调制度大于0.8。观察表明,外腔长度在1/10~1/6泰伯距离内变化时,锁相均能实现。实验事实表明锁相是交叉注入锁定的结果。利用半导体激光注入锁定理论,定性分析了外腔DLA由自由振荡向锁相过渡的过程,预言了锁相场波长应出现在自由运行DLA光谱长波端,实验也证实了这一事实。     

Modified grating-based external cavity diode laser for simultaneous dual-wavelengths operation

We have reported a modified V-shaped external cavity, which is constructed around a commercial diode laser operating at a center wavelength of λ=785 nm by adding a new coated glass plate with about 50% reflectivity to the cavity. This allows simultaneous dual-wavelengths operation in the vicinity of Δν_min=0.18 THz to Δν_max=0.22 THz, which can be used as laser source for terahertz generation either for semiconductor devices or nonlinear schemes.     

利用铌酸锂晶体制作体全息光栅的设计性实验

利用双光束干涉,通过控制双光束的记录角度,在铌酸锂晶体中写入光折变体全息布拉格光栅.将该光栅应用于光通信系统中作为滤波器使用,利用ASE光源和光谱仪对其进行测试,在1 548nm波长处获得了峰值半高全宽为4nm,衍射效率为10%的滤波效果.     

Intracavity photoacoustic gas detection with an external cavity diode laser

The first use of an external cavity diode-laser light source in combination with a photoacoustic detector for high-sensitivity gas detection is described. This combined system is applicable for detecting gases with absorption coefficients as low as 5 x 10^–8 cm^–1 by operating the photoacoustic cell in an intracavity mode. Measurements were made on the 1.13 m absorption lines of water vapour. For quantitative measurements, it was found to be necessary to introduce a reference cell into the system.