激光棒位置对热不灵敏凹凸腔运转特性的影响

以典型商用凹凸谐振腔为例，系统地分析了激光棒位置对热不灵敏腔运转特性的影响，对有关结果进行了讨论．     

高光束质量、高功率稳定性激光器的设计及实验研究

高光束质量、高功率稳定性激光器在激光加工、激光测量等领域具有广泛的用途.为了实现激光器腔内光斑聚焦同时减少色散和体积,人们常常将曲面反射镜用在激光谐振腔中,但光束倾斜入射到曲面反射镜往往会引起像散,从而导致光斑质量恶化,并降低激光器的性能.另一方面,在高功率激光器或超短脉冲激光器中,激光增益介质热透镜焦距的起伏,是导致激光输出功率波动的主要原因之一.针对激光器的像散和功率波动这两个问题,本文提出了一套简单高效的解决方案,在考虑像散补偿和热透镜效应的基础上,基于传播变换圆理论,首次提出一种可实现高光束质量、高功率稳定性激光器谐振腔的设计方法,并对采用该方法所设计出的超短脉冲激光器进行理论与实验研究.研究结果表明,利用该方法设计的激光谐振腔,两端臂像散能够完全被补偿,实验上实现了基模高斯光束输出;当激光晶体热透镜焦距改变时,该方法所设计出的激光谐振腔内各关键位置光斑半径的变化,显著地小于普通谐振腔,在相同外界条件下,其输出激光功率稳定性明显优于普通激光器.     

高功率高光束质量脉冲Nd: YAG激光器

以实现高功率、高光束质量的脉冲激光输出为目的,对非对称平-凹谐振腔的结构进行了理论分析。设计出了高功率、高光束质量非对称放置的平-凹谐振腔、双氙灯泵浦的脉冲Nd: YAG激光器。当占空比为9%时,实现输出激光平均功率近480 W,光束参数积优于12.7 mm·mrad,电光转化效率近4%,与理论分析吻合,可用芯径300 μm的光纤传输,不稳定性优于±1%。加工实验证明有较好的质量：切割材料为不锈钢,厚度为3 mm时、切割速度为0.6 m/min和厚度为1.5 mm、切割速度为1.2 m/min时,两种情况下所得切缝宽度均为250 μm,且切割上下沿光滑。     

LD泵浦Nd:YVO4/LBO临界相位匹配腔内倍频瓦级绿光激光器

报道了一种光纤耦合LD泵浦Nd:YVO₄晶体、腔内Ⅰ类临界相位匹配(角度匹配)LBO倍频、瓦级输出的全固态绿光激光器的设计方法和实验结果.采用短三镜折叠腔结构,通过对热透镜焦距的估算及计算机优化设计选取合适的谐振腔参量,在8 W的泵浦功率下,获得了1.6 W绿光基模输出,光-光转换效率达20%.经测量,绿光的偏振比超过400:1,4 h功率稳定度为±1.6%.     

热透镜效应下的克尔透镜锁模

讨论了在增益介质与克尔介质分离情况下热透镜效应对克尔透镜锁模的影响，计算了克尔透镜锁模在热不敏感腔中需满足的条件，结果表明，通过适当地调整激光腔参数，有可能实现热不敏感的克尔透镜锁模。最后通过计算机数值模拟获得了对典型振荡腔设计参量的修正。     

Experimental Investigation of Thermal Lensing in End-pumped Nd:YVO4 Crystal Using a New Simple Approach

The stability of linear planar resonators involved in solid-state lasers is entirely decided by the thermal lens of the laser crystal. There exists a critical point between stable state and unstable state at which the thermally focusing point falls on the surface of one end mirror. Based on this fact, a new method for measuring the thermal focal length has been presented, and applied to three different Nd3+-doped (2%, 0.8%, and 0.5% ) Nd∶YVO4 crystals at various absorbed pump power levels up to 10 W, the results show a good agreement with those of theoretical calculation. It also indicates that the thermal lensing is strongly dependent on the Nd3+-doped concentration, and is affected by crystal surface temperature, especially in the situation of weak thermal lensing.     

A Flash-Lamp-Pumped Nd:YAG Laser with Dual-Telescopic Optics Configuration

A flash-lamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser that contains two laser rods and dual-telescopic elements is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The two intracavity telescopes of the resonator are appropriately chosen and adjusted to achieve a large-volume TEM₀₀ mode inside the laser rods, and to minimize the variational effects of the thermal lens in the rods. The drift of the optimal operating point of the resonator caused by variation in the pump energy is compensated by adjusting defocusing of the two telescopes over a broad pump energy range. It is experimentally shown that our resonator geometry with appropriate parameters obtained the output energy of 560 mJ with 100 #x03BC;s duration and slope efficiency of 3.5#x0025;, at a pump energy of 16J, even though the misalignment tilting angle of the end mirror reached #x00B1;5mrad. The bi-focusing effect caused by the thermally-induced stress birefringence was compensated by a 90#x00B0; quartz rotator. Output energy was increased by 18#x0025; at the pump energy of 16J. The misalignment tilting angle of the end mirror with intracavity telescope was 4 times larger than that without intracavity telescope.     

Beam quality considerations of high power Nd:YAG lasers

High power Nd:YAG lasers with fiber optic beam delivery have introduced new capabilities for material processing applications. Here, we present the stable resonator design for high power Nd:YAG lasers to optimize beam quality for fiber optic transmission. Dependence of beam parameters on position and dioptric power of thermal lens has been investigated and optimized to achieve efficient fiber optic beam delivery. With the optimum resonator configuration, an efficient fiber optic beam delivery over the entire operating range of input power has been achieved. The results of stable resonator design with good beam quality and output power have been presented.     

High beam quality in a HyBrID copper laser operating with an unstable resonator made of a concave mirror and a plano-convex BK7 lens

This paper presents a very simple unstable resonator, made of a concave mirror (total reflector) and a bare plane–convex BK7 lens working as a convex coupling mirror, which is quite efficient for HyBrID copper laser. In addition to a good quality factor (M²=4.9), experimental results showed that it is possible to control the laser output power by introducing a variable aperture iris inside the cavity, close to the coupling lens, without spoiling beam quality. A rough theoretical model helped to explain these results as a combined effect of unstable resonator plus radial gain distribution.     

Investigation of the beam propagation in a pumped laser rod

A method investigating the beam propagation in a pumped laser rod is proposed. In this method, the pumped laser rod in a resonator is evenly divided into N segments along the laser rod axis, and each segment is considered as a small thermal lens with thermal focus length of f. Accordingly, the beam radius distributions in the laser rod for the symmetric and asymmetric resonators are thus calculated, respectively. The beam radius distribution in the whole resonator is also calculated. Moreover, the calculated beam distribution in the whole resonator and in the rod is also described in detail.     

200兆赫高功率CW锁模YAG激光泵浦源研究

本文报导一台200MHz 12W平均功率的CW锁模Nd:YAG激光泵浦源,输出脉宽约100ps,能够可靠地长期稳定运转。     

同轴放电环形增益区谐振腔镜面的场分布

对几类环形增益区谐振腔进行了比较,得出利用谐振腔两镜之一的全工作面输出的新型环形增益区谐振腔是适合的谐振腔。提出了一种计算全工作面输出的同轴放电环形增益区谐振腔镜面场分布的方法,利用几何方法对腔镜镜面进行划分,得出了基于菲涅尔-基尔霍夫衍射积分定理的积分区域,并对该区域进行了有限元划分,应用计算机编程计算出了同轴放电环形增益区谐振腔镜面处的光场分布和相位分布。近场分布在环形区中央部分近似地呈高斯分布,且沿径向出现高阶模场分布特点,沿角向无差别。     

同轴放电环形增益区谐振腔镜面的场分布

 对几类环形增益区谐振腔进行了比较,得出利用谐振腔两镜之一的全工作面输出的新型环形增益区谐振腔是适合的谐振腔。提出了一种计算全工作面输出的同轴放电环形增益区谐振腔镜面场分布的方法,利用几何方法对腔镜镜面进行划分,得出了基于菲涅尔-基尔霍夫衍射积分定理的积分区域,并对该区域进行了有限元划分,应用计算机编程计算出了同轴放电环形增益区谐振腔镜面处的光场分布和相位分布。近场分布在环形区中央部分近似地呈高斯分布,且沿径向出现高阶模场分布特点,沿角向无差别。     

激光二极管端面抽运Nd:YVO4板条激光器及其热效应

激光器中激光介质采用板条状几何结构可以极大地降低它的热效应,但仍然需要进一步分析其影响,进而优化激光器效率.利用有限元分析方法分析了部分端面抽运的混合腔板条激光器中激光介质的热效应,计算的热透镜焦距与实测结果基本相符.分析了热效应对模式匹配的影响,分析结果对于优化激光器效率、改进谐振腔设计具有一定的参考价值.并在分析的基础上进行了混合腔实验,抽运功率为110 W时,获得连续输出激光功率41.5 W,光光转换效率约38%,斜效率达58.8%,M2因子为非稳腔方向M2x＝1.59,稳定腔方向M2y＝1.55.     

热变形谐振腔的激光模式理论分析

应用微扰理论,对微热变形腔的激光模式进行了理论计算与分析;给出了激光模式之间的耦合以及等效光束发散角与镜面变形量之间的关系。结果表明：镜面中心处热变形量越大,模式之间的耦合越强,激光腔模式发生畸变就越严重;当镜面中心处热变形量为0.5λ时,基模TEM0的中心光强将下降50%,其等效光束发散角将增大到镜面无变形时的2倍。     

Experimental Investigation of Thermal Lensing in End-pumped Nd:YVO4 Crystal Using a New Simple Approach

The stability of linear planar resonators involved in solid-state lasers is entirely decided by the thermal lens of the laser crystal. There exists a critical point between stable state and unstable state at which the thermally focusing point falls on the surface of one end mirror. Based on this fact, a new method for measuring the thermal focal length has been presented, and applied to three different Nd3+-doped (2%, 0.8%, and 0.5% ) Nd:YVO4 crystals at various absorbed pump power levels up to 10 W, the results show a good agreement with those of theoretical calculation. It also indicates that the thermal lensing is strongly dependent on the Nd3+-doped concentration, and is affected by crystal surface temperature, especially in the situation of weak thermal lensing.     

Measurement of Thermal Lens Focal Length and Its Effect on Laser Output Characteristics in LD End-pumped Nd:YVO4 Lasers

According to the resonator transform circle theory, the focal length of thermal lens of laser media in laser diode end-pumped solid-state lasers is analyzed and measured with a simple method. A 30W 808nm LD pumped YVO4 laser is developed and characterized.     

Measurement of Thermal Lens Focal Length and Its Effect on Laser Output Characteristics in LD End-pumped Nd∶YVO4 Lasers

According to the resonator transform circle theory, the focal length of thermal lens of laser media in laser diode end-pumped solid-state lasers is analyzed and measured with a simple method. A 30W 808nm LD pumped YVO4 laser is developed and characterized.     

The intensity distribution and thermal stability of InnoSlab laser

Partially end-pumped slab laser is an innovative solid state laser, namely InnoSlab. Combining the hybrid resonator with partially end-pumping, the output power can be scaled with high beam quality. In this paper, the output intensity distributions are simulated by coordinate transformation fast Fourier transform(FFT) algorithm, comparing the thermal lens influence. As the simulated curves showed, the output mode is still good when the thermal lens effect is strong, indicatingthe good thermal stability of InnoSlab laser.Such a new kind of laser can be designed and optimized on the base of this simulation.     

激光调制参数对光纤环型谐振腔光谱特性影响

谐振光学环型腔作为光学陀螺的核心敏感单元,其光学调制谱和与之对应的鉴频曲线的特性成为提高光学陀螺系统检测灵敏度的关键。为了研究光学陀螺的调制和鉴频谱线特性,优化陀螺性能,设计并搭建了实验测试系统,光纤环形谐振腔采用分光比为50∶50、直径17 cm的保偏光纤,总长2.2 m。使用直流高压放大器扫描窄线宽激光器（线宽小于1 kHz）的压电转化模块,扫描频率和电压分别选取20 Hz和1 V,使用模拟比例积分电路进行锁频并反馈给激光器的压电转化模块,使激光器的输出频率跟踪谐振腔实时变化。研究分析了光纤环型谐振腔在两种情况下所对应的透射谱和鉴频曲线：第一种情况为调制电压分别为2 V和4 V,对应调制频率从100 kHz到4 MHz变化;第二种情况为当调制频率为900 kHz,调制电压从2 V到10 V变化。通过实验,得到了不同调制参数下光学陀螺谱线的谐振深度、半高全宽、线性带宽、动态范围、品质因数、标度因数以及对应的锁频精度七种物理量的详细变化情况,并进一步得到了静态测试条件下三种陀螺的最佳调制频率及与之所匹配的调制电压。为进一步研究激光调制对光纤环型谐振腔光谱的影响提供指导。