Nd:YAG调Q激光器双波长振荡机理分析

根据速率方程,研究了二镜腔Nd:YAG双波长调Q激光的振荡机理.通过分析不同透过率下的竞争过程,研究了双波长激光振荡的特点.研究结果表明,在调Q过程中1319nm激光的调Q脉冲起振时间滞后于1064nm激光,并且其最终调Q脉冲来自调Q之后的第一个弛豫振荡尖峰,是该弛豫振荡抑制掉其他弛豫振荡后的结果.通过振荡机理分析,得到了双波长脉冲输出能量相当的透过率条件. 关键词： 双波长 调Q激光 速率方程 弛豫振荡     

氩气中飞秒超强紫外激光成丝的实验研究

中心波长808 nm,脉宽70 fs的钛蓝宝石激光系统三倍频后产生的中心波长268 nm、带宽1.5 nm、单脉冲能量0.58 mJ的紫外超快激光光源经凹面镜聚焦后注入到样品池氩气中,由强场非线性效应诱导形成了等离子体通道,并对紫外激光脉冲光谱进行展宽.实验着重研究了268 nm波段的紫外激光成丝特点,以及在不同气体压强、聚焦长度、气体种类等条件下紫外光丝对光谱的调制作用.在2.2×105Pa氩气气压、焦距1000 mm条件下,可以获得光谱宽度3.3 nm,加宽为人射紫外脉冲的2.2倍.实验观察到压强和聚焦长度的增加都有利于等离子体通道的增加,有利于光谱展宽.紫外激光诱导的等离子体通道为在紫外波段内获得极端超快激光脉冲提供了有效的途径.     

2.94 μm LiNbO3声光调Q Er:YAG激光输出脉冲特性

2.94 μm纳秒铒激光是宽调谐中红外激光和临床医疗研究中重要的固体激光源.本文研制了新型LiNbO₃声光调Q Er:YAG激光器,研究了20 Hz重复频率下不同调Q延迟时间和耦合腔镜反射率对激光输出脉冲特性的影响规律.根据测量激光器的热透镜焦距设计了凹凸谐振腔补偿热透镜效应,获得了激光单脉冲能量为34.68 mJ、脉冲宽度为119.9 ns的调Q输出,相应的峰值功率为289.24 kW,与平平腔相比输出能量提高了2.09倍.据我们所知,这是目前声光调Q Er:YAG激光器中获得的最高能量,可为进一步研究宽调谐中红外激光技术提供新的手段.     

Ho∶YAG激光泵浦的磷锗锌光参量振荡器

介绍了由Ho∶YAG声光调Q激光器输出2.1μm激光脉冲泵浦ZGP光参量振荡器。利用1.9μm激光器作为Ho∶YAG激光器的泵浦源,调Q重复频率为15kHz时,激光器输出功率21.5 W单一波长窄线宽激光。由Ho∶YAG激光器泵浦ZGP-OPO,最大输出中波红外激光8.85 W,激光脉冲宽度14.5ns,激光器输出斜效率高达80.9%。该激光器在气体检测及光电对抗等领域有广泛的应用前景。     

仪器和设备

镭宝光电新产品———Elite系列小型化脉冲调Q激光器镭宝光电技术有限公司于2006年新开发了小体积的脉冲调Q固体激光器———Elite,该激光器不仅外形美观精致,体积小巧,同时具有非常简便的操作性能,独特的结构设计使用户在更换泵浦灯时不需要打开激光器箱盖,在短短10分钟内便能完成一次更换泵浦灯的过程.Elite系列激光器采用电光调Q技术,输出ns级脉宽的调Q激光,激光头尺寸为320mm×88mm×82mm,1064nm波长的激光输出能量达到200mJ,重复频率10Hz、20Hz可选;另外,Elite系列产品中激光箱体均采用密封结构,能够防潮、防尘、抗振动,用户还可…     

高脉冲重复频率调Q Tm,Ho:GdVO4激光器

报道了一个高效率连续波和调Q高重频两种运行方式的Tm,Ho:GdVO4激光器.Tm,Ho:GdVO4晶体尺寸4 mm×4 mm×7 mm,a轴通光,液氮制冷到100 K,由发射中心波长为793 nm的光纤耦合激光二极管端面泵浦.Tm,Ho:GdVO4激光连续波输出功率4.0 W,光光转换效率26%.声光调Q条件下输出平均高功率3.9 W,脉冲重复频率10 kHz,脉冲宽度50 ns. 通过减小声光Q开关的开启时间,激光脉冲宽度由50 ns减小至23 ns.在10 kHz重频下,测量最大脉冲能量0.39 mJ , 峰值功率7.8 kW.     

泵浦光聚焦特性对高重频1064 nm被动调Q激光器的影响

研究了泵浦光聚焦特性对被动调Q激光器输出激光特性的影响。使用10 W激光二极管(LD)和焦距为4 mm的耦合聚焦镜,在不改变LD和谐振腔结构与间距(15 mm)的情况下,选取5个耦合聚焦镜位置,研究对应泵浦光聚焦特性对输出激光特性的影响,特别是对输出脉冲稳定性的影响。泵浦功率为3.550 W时,相较于其他耦合聚焦镜位置,在耦合聚焦镜距离LD 7.50 mm处,被动调Q激光器实现了更高重复频率(160 kHz)、更高平均输出功率(360 mW)、更高单脉冲能量(2.250 μJ)、更低时域抖动(120 ns)的稳定脉冲输出。实验数据说明,耦合聚焦镜距离LD 7.50 mm处,泵浦光聚焦光斑与谐振腔基模光斑的匹配程度较好。理论计算得出,耦合聚焦镜距离LD 7.50 mm时,谐振腔基模光斑尺寸与泵浦光聚焦光斑束腰尺寸的比值为0.854,该比值对今后开展高重频被动调Q激光器相关研究具有一定的借鉴意义。     

退压式La_3Ga_5SiO_(14)晶体电光调QNd∶YAG激光器激光性能研究

通过对硅酸镓镧(LGS)晶体旋光性与电光效应的交互作用的理论研究,推导出晶体旋光性和电光效应共同作用下的光强表示式I=1-4B2(Asin 2ω-Ccos 2ω)2。利用此表示式设计计算了旋光晶体LGS尺寸为8 mm×8 mm×25 mm电光Q开关在1064 nm波长使用时的开关电压和偏振角分别为4995 V和27.3°。将理论研究得到的结论应用于LGS晶体电光调Q的Nd∶YAG晶体激光器的实验研究中,实验结果与理论计算结果基本一致。得到输出能量为361 mJ,脉冲宽度为7.8 ns的脉冲激光输出。     

激光触发沿面闪络试验中的同步研究

 建立了精确的激光触发沿面闪络试验系统,用波长1 064/532 nm,调Q开关的Nd:YAG固体激光器来触发绝缘试品的沿面闪络。分别测量了Marx发生器的触发器输入电压和输出电压、Marx发生器的触发脉冲和Marx发生器输出电压、激光器的Q开关控制信号和输出激光脉冲之间的时延和抖动。应用自制的数字脉冲发生器控制Marx发生器的触发器及激光器的氙灯信号触发,用Marx发生器输出电压控制激光器的Q开关;根据所测时延和激光器的控制时序,调整数字脉冲发生器各通道的时延。实验结果显示：Marx输出电压与激光脉冲时延516.1 ns,抖动4.5 ns,达到激光脉冲与脉冲电压的精确同步。     

退压式La3Ga5SiO14晶体电光调Q Nd:YAG激光器激光性能研究

通过对硅酸镓镧(LGS)晶体旋光性与电光效应的交互作用的理论研究,推导出晶体旋光性和电光效应共同作用下的光强表示式I=1-4B2(Asin 2ω-Ccos 2ω)2.利用此表示式设计计算了旋光晶体LGS尺寸为8 mm×8 mm× 25 mm电光Q开关在1064 nm波长使用时的开关电压和偏振角分别为4995 V和27.3°.将理论研究得到的结论应用于LGS晶体电光调Q的Nd:YAG晶体激光器的实验研究中,实验结果与理论计算结果基本一致.得到输出能量为361 mJ,脉冲宽度为7.8 ns的脉冲激光输出.     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Hybrid Wavelength and Code Division Multiple Access in Optical Networks

A review of schemes for multiple access in fiber optic networks shows that a hybrid of wavelength and code division multiple access (WCDMA) combines the best features of both. In particular, the hybrid scheme retains the large information carrying capacity of wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) and flexibility of code division multiple access (CDMA). In this paper WDMA, optical CDMA (OCDMA), and WCDMA networks are discussed. In OCDMA networks, concept of incoherent and coherent coding including inverse decoding and matched filter is introduced. The delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks, under the simple suboptimum access protocols based on cyclic search, is computed. It has been shown quantitatively that tuning delay significantly affects the delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks. Futhermore, delay performance of WCDMA networks is always better than the WDMA networks for the same tuning delay, load, and number of users.     

Femtosecond Transform-Limited Pulse Generation by Compensating for the Linear Chirp of SPM Spectra in Dispersion Shifted Fibers

A simple technique of pulse compression, based on the linear chirp compensation of self-phase modulation (SPM) spectra in dispersion shifted fibers, is demonstrated. The optimization procedure is carried out, for a short span of a single-mode fiber, using a parabolic law, which describes the behavior of the squared output pulse width versus the pump peak power in the case of Gaussian pulses. The experimental results give a minimum pulse duration of 233 fs, which is in good agreement with the model. Shorter and coherent pulses, down to 90 fs, have been obtained by inserting an interference filter at the optical output.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Measurement of nonlinear coefficient of optical fiber based on small chirped soliton transmission

We measure the waveform and phase curves of short optical pulses before and after transmission over different lengths of fibers by use of the pulse analyzer with the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG),and numerically simulate pulse evolution under the experimental conditions.The nonlinear coefficient of the fiber is given by comparing the experimental results with the numerical ones.Difference between the experiment and numerical simulation is analyzed.     

Resonance scattering of canonical elastic shells in absorbing fluid medium

Resonance scattering of elastic spherical shell and cylindrical shell while the surrounding fluid medium has absorption is studied. The normal mode solution derived using exact elastic theory and the separation of variables is still applicable. However, the scattering form function has to be modified for the absorbing medium, otherwise the unreasonable result would be obtained. The backscattering form function in the absorbing medium is redefined, and the form function of elastic spherical and cylindrical shell with vacuum or solid matter filled is calculated in various absorption conditions. The results show that the absorption of surrounding fluid leads to notable attenuation of the coincidence resonances in the mid-frequency, but it has a little influence on the low-frequency resonance scattering induced by the filler inside the shell.     

Single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor with high detection resolution

A versatile and low-cost single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance(SPR)sensing system with ultra-high resolution performance is presented.The system exhibits a root-mean-square phase fluctuation of ±0.0028.over a period of 45 min.i.e.a resolution of±5.2×10-9 refractive index units.The enhanced performance has been achieved through the incorporation of three design elements:a true single-beam configuration enabling complete self-referencing so that only the phase change associated with SPR gets detected,a differential measurement scheme to eliminate spurious signals not related to the sensor response,and the elimination of retardation drifts by incorporating temperature stabilization in the liquid crystal phase modulato .Our design should bring the detection sensitivity of non-labeling SPR biosensing closer to that achievable by conventional fluorescence-based techniques.     

Influences of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold of Ta2O5 films

Ta2O5 films are prepared on BK7 substrates with conventional electron beam evaporation deposition.The effects of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the films are investigated.The results show that SiO2 protective layers exert little influence on the electric field intensity(EFI)distribution,microstructure and microdefect density but increase the absorption slightly.Annealing iS effective on decreasing the microdefect density and the absorption of the films.Both SiO2 protective layers and annealing are beneficial to the damage resistance of the films and the latter is more effective to improve the LIDT.Moreover,the maximal LIDT of Ta2O5 films is achieved by the combination of SiO2 protective layers and annealing.