向染料激光说再见

最近,美国光谱物理公司(Spectra-Physics)研制成功一种蓝宝石-掺钛(Ti:sapphire)可调谐连续固休激光器.它的优异性能和宽广的调谐范围可以取代四种低性能的红外染料激光器.图1给出蓝宝石-掺钛激光与四种红外染料激光的调谐范围与输出功率的比较曲线.这种新型的固体激光光源使红外染料激光显得大为逊色.蓝宝石-掺钛固体激光器的突出特点是:输出功率比任何一种染料激光器的输出功率高三倍以上,而且还可以更高;在700—1000um的宽广调谐范围内,其功率输出几乎是相等的;此外它更具有染料激光所不能比拟的长寿命、使用方便以及多用性等突出优点.…     

用简并的四波混频补偿激光放大器相位畸变的方案

本文提出和实验论证了两种用简并的四波混频补偿激光放大器相位畸变的方案.在第一种方案中,混频介质饱和吸收体BDN染料二氯乙烷液体置于激光振荡器腔外,用偏振隔离技术,相位补偿的激光辐射从Nd:YAG激光振荡放大系统中耦合出来.实验得到了放大约四倍的后向波输出.在第二种方案中,相位共轭镜置于激光振荡器腔内,BDN染料溶液既作为简并的四波混频介质,又作为调Q介质,获得了补偿放大器相位畸变的调Q激光输出、研究了相位补偿特性.测量了激光输出与染料溶液浓度的关系.     

功率谱密度法标定光镊的三维光阱刚度

采用四象限探测器和功率谱密度法,搭建了一套快速标定光镊三维光阱刚度的测量系统.实验中,用四象限探测器记录微粒做受限布朗运动时的位置信息,用功率谱密度法标定光阱刚度,测得了直径0.97μm SiO2小球和直径1μm PMMA小球的光阱刚度与激光功率的关系.结果表明:对于SiO2小球,当激光功率为50~120mW时,光阱刚度与激光功率成正比;对于PMMA小球,当激光功率为80~130mW时,光阱刚度与激光功率成正比.该光镊系统可用于生物、物理等微观领域研究的高准确度测力系统.     

基于随机并行梯度下降算法的多波长激光相干合成

由于受到受激布里渊散射(SBS)等非线性效应的限制,单频激光放大器的功率在百瓦量级,以非单频激光多波长激光作为种子源能够有效地抑制SBS并提高放大器功率.与单频激光相干合成相比,非单频率、多波长激光的相干合成有望将输出激光功率成量级地提高.基于随机并行梯度下降(stochastic parallel gradient descent,SPGD)算法,实现了四波长激光的相干合成.在系统闭环时,四路多波长激光合成后的主瓣能量能够提高3倍,达到理想值的75%.验证了多波长、非单频激光相干合成的可行性,为高功率相干合成的发展提供了新的途径.     

掺杂红外染料聚叠氮缩水甘油醚工质激光烧蚀推进性能优化探索

选择含能聚合物聚叠氮缩水甘油醚(GAP)作为激光烧蚀微推力器的工质,分析了红外染料掺杂对激光烧蚀GAP工质推进性能的影响.通过对比掺杂红外染料GAP在不同激光功率密度、掺杂浓度、靶材厚度和激光烧蚀模式下的推进性能数据和烧蚀羽流,初步探索了掺杂红外染料GAP工质的推进性能优化方式.实验结果表明:透射式激光烧蚀模式下,激光能量的指数衰减特性和掺杂红外染料GAP的强黏性使得烧蚀羽流中易存在未充分烧蚀的工质; GAP的推进性能受红外染料掺杂浓度和靶材厚度的综合影响,当靶材厚度与激光吸收深度接近时,靶材充分吸收激光能量使中心烧蚀区达到化学能释放的温度阈值,同时沿激光传播方向未充分烧蚀的质量最少,此时推进性能达到最优值.反射式下掺杂红外染料的聚合物的激光烧蚀过程遵循"先吸收激光能量先喷射"的规律,工质分解充分,推进性能优于透射式.     

XeF,KrF准分子激光泵浦染料激光器

在各种波长的可调谐激光器中,染料激光器具有设备简单、制作方便、价格低廉、调谐范围宽等一系列优点,受到研究和应用方面的普遍重视.激光泵浦是获得染料激射作用的重要而有效途径.迄今为止,用来泵浦染料的激光器主要有以下几种:YAG的高次谐波[1],红宝石激光器及其二次谐波[2],Ar离子激光器[3],N2分子激光器[4]及准分子激光器[5,6]等. N2分子激光器因其结构简单.已成为许多染料的泵浦源,用N2激光泵浦的染料激光器已做到从355nm到655um的调谐输出和100kw的峰值功率.然而欲进一步提高输出功率和扩大调谐到更短波长区,却受到N2激光器本身可…     

三硼酸锂晶体Ⅰ类非临界相位匹配下近红外波段的差频产生

利用差频发生器产生波长范围为1.1~2.2μm的可调谐近红外激光.实验搭建了差频光路系统,以0.56~0.71μm染料激光器作为泵浦光、1.064μm的半导体激光器作为信号光,经过三硼酸锂晶体在Ⅰ类相位匹配方式条件下通过温度调谐非临界相位匹配方式差频产生较高功率的近红外激光,在近红外波段测得其平均输出功率在30mW以上.泵浦光功率为1.2 W、信号光功率为0.31 W时,测得差频波长为1.54μm的输出功率为35mW,转化效率达11.7%.该近红外差频发生器具有宽调谐、窄线宽的特点.     

多频染料激光器的相关调谐原理

本文将染料激光系统模式耦合理论应用于三频或多频运转的染料激光器,得到了用“增益-损耗比”和振荡频率所含模数等参量表示的振荡条件关系式,讨论了三频染料激光的振荡状态图及其相关调谐问题.     

溴化亚铜激光泵浦的可调谐微微秒染料激光

本文首次报道了利用脉宽为25ns重复率为10kHz的溴化亚铜激光泵浦混有饱和吸收体DODCI的超短腔染料激光,产生出30ps光脉冲.在理论上对混入DODCI的超短腔染料激光脉冲压缩效应作了分析计算,计算结果与实验基本一致.在实验上又通过一个放大-色散系统实现对此染料激光脉冲的同步放大和调谐,并达到傅里叶变换极限.     

偶氮基染料掺杂薄膜的双光子图象存储

研究了偶氮基染料掺杂薄膜ＭＯ－ＰＶＡ和ＥＯ－ＰＶＡ的双光子存储特性。在对薄膜用Ａｒ＾＋激光作预激发下实现了Ｈｅ－Ｎｅ激光的红光存储。获得了实时和短时存储照片。光电记录存储曲线，分析了双光四能级系统的存储机制。实现确定了最佳预激发功率约为０．２８Ｗ／ｃｍ＾２，最小Ｈｅ－Ｎｅ光可存储功率密度低于０．２Ｗ／ｃｍ＾２。     

Theory and experiment of CW dye laser injection locking and its application to second harmonic generation

High-power single-mode operation of a cw ring dye laser has been obtained by injection of cw single-mode radiation. The intracavity power of this system was used to generate tunable single-mode uv radiation by frequency doubling in a temperature phase-matched ADA crystal: up to 45 W intracavity fundamental power and up to 70 mW extracted uv power have been observed. A theoretical treatment of the injection locked cw ring dye laser system is given for the stationary state. Expressions for the intracavity intensities as a function of the small-signal gain and the saturation intensity are derived.     

Polarization and power characteristics of pulsed dye lasers with transverse pumping

Starting from the classical theory on molecular luminescence in liquids, rate equation for two-polarization-mode laser oscillation under transverse pumping with intense excitation have been set forth neglecting the influence of orientational relaxation of the dye molecules. Hence, the laser output power and polarization under different configurations have been obtained. The results show that the dye laser is partially polarized even when the pump beam is unpolarized and no polarizing elements exist in the cavity. If we define a reference plane consisting of the axes of the pump beam and the dye laser, the laser system has to adopt the plane perpendicular to the reference plane as the polarization direction in order to yield a highly efficient, linearly polarized laser output. Experiments on a copper-vapor laser pumped dye laser verified these analytical results.     

Temporal dynamics of high repetition rate pulsed single longitudinal mode dye laser

Theoretical and experimental studies of temporal dynamics of grazing incidence grating (GIG) cavity, single-mode dye laser pumped by high repetition rate copper vapour laser (CVL) are presented. Spectral chirp of the dye laser as they evolve in the cavity due to transient phase dynamics of the amplifier gain medium is studied. Effect of grating efficiency, focal spot size, pump power and other cavity parameters on the temporal behaviour of narrow band dye laser such as build-up time, pulse shape and pulse width is studied using the four level dye laser rate equation and photon evolution equation. These results are compared with experimental observations of GIG single-mode dye laser cavity. The effect of pulse stretching of CVL pump pulse on the temporal dynamics of the dye laser is studied.     

High power cw dye lasers

The dependance of the output power of cw dye lasers on the pump power and the system-and stream parameters is calculated and experimentally tested. It was found that the pump power for a given system is limited to a critical value due to the influence of thermal inhomogeneities. This critical pump power is predominantly dependant on the dye solvent, the flow velocity, the focussing of the pump laser and the stability range of the dye laser system. Possibilities for the reduction of the thermal inhomogeneities are discussed and attainable output powers are calculated.     

An experimental optimization study for concentration and laser power effects in the fullerene-C60 and azo dye doped guest-host liquid crystal systems

The current-voltage characteristics of a famous guest-host liquid crystal system have been investigated under dark and laser illumination conditions. Dependency of current modulation with respect to concentration and laser power gives some optimization possibilities and estimations on the reorientation mechanisms of the liquid crystals. The current-voltage character of pure E7 is almost unchanged with laser pumping, while the fullerene and dye doping are enhancing effects in their individual and collective usage. The negative resistance effect was observed for some certain concentrations of the dye and C₆₀, and this peculiarity is shown to be switched with laser illumination. The mobility of the doped LC samples was calculated by transient current measurements and its dependency on the dye concentration and the laser power was investigated. It is evaluated that the effect of methyl red is a critical parameter in photoconductivity applications of liquid crystals.     

A large coaxial lidar for elastic and inelastic scattering studies of the stratosphere

A very powerful, fixed zenith laser radar system, based upon a liquid dye laser, is described in detail. The laser is a linear flashlamp pumped dye system capable of an average power output of 6W at a prf of 3 s^–1 using rhodamine 6G dye and about 3W with the same prf using esculin monohydrate dye. The use of this laser as a transmitting source in the lidar system has permitted the detection of Stokes shifted vibration/rotation Raman back-scattered light from neutral nitrogen in the stratosphere and from these measurements, stratospheric temperature profiles have been derived. The lidar has also been used to study elastic backscattering from the stratosphere at two wavelengths and preliminary results of a new technique for studying stratospheric aerosol are presented.     

A long-pulse xenon ion laser as a pumping source for dye lasers

A simple xenon ion laser that is either sealed or has a gas flow mode is described. The laser delivered long pulses ( 15 μs) of almost 1 kW peak power. It has been used to pump a dye laser employing the same configuration as cw dye lasers. The system is inexpensive and can be mode-locked, enabling it to yield ultrashort pulses comparable in duration to those delivered by cw argon laser-pumped dye lasers but with much higher peak powers.     

New efficient laser dye for pulsed and CW operation in the UV

A new laser dye for pulsed and cw operation has been synthesized which can be tuned from 362 nm up to 412 nm. For pulsed excitation with a XeCl excimer laser an energy conversion of 18.5% has been measured at the tuning maximum of the dye; this is the highest efficiency for any known dye in the UV. For cw operation a low laser threshold and a goof efficiency have been observed. The range of tuned cw dye lasers is extended by 30 nm to shorter wavelengths. The dye shows high photochemical stability even at high pump laser power.     

Prism tuner for single frequency operation of CW dye laser

A cw dye laser capable of single longitudinal mode operation and linear reproducible wavelenght tuning over a relatively wide spectral range is described. By employing a novel scheme of four intracavity highly dispersive Abbe prisms output powers of 5 mW with a linewidth less than 30 MHz for an input power of 700 mW have been obtained.