激光诱导Al等离子体发射光谱特性的实验研究

本文从实验上研究了不同缓冲气体(He,Ar,N2和Air)中激光Al等离子体的时间分辨发射光谱,研究了原子发射谱线的强度和Stark展宽随延时、缓冲气体性质和压力变化的规律.结果表明原子谱线的强度在3μs左右达到最大值,随着延时的增加,谱线的Stark展宽减小,而缓冲气体压力的增大导致谱线的Stark展宽增大,在实验测定的四种缓冲气体中,Ar气体中谱线的Stark展宽最大.     

气体脉冲放电等离子体阻抗的参量研究

在纯净氦气条件下，对高频纵向脉冲放电的等离子体动态阻抗进行了实验研究.测量了放电等离子体阻抗随放电电压、频率以及气体压强之间的变化关系，表明等离子体阻抗随频率和电压的增加而下降，随气压的升高而增大.定性分析了这些宏观参量与等离子体阻抗变化之间的关系，拟合出等离子体阻抗随电压、频率、气压变化的经验公式，并对数值模拟与实验结果进行了比较研究. 关键词： 等离子体阻抗 气体脉冲放电     

High buffer gas pressure perturbation of coherent population trapping in sodium vapors

We report an experimental investigation of coherent population trapping in specially selected Zeeman levels of the sodium atom, performed under high buffer gas pressure in a polydimethylsiloxane coated cell at room temperature. The results show that coherent population trapping will not be completely destroyed when the buffer gas pressure reaches 1100 Torr for He and 1000, 800, and 500 Torr, for Ne, Ar and Kr, respectively. Buffer gases with heavier mass play a larger destructive role for the coherent population trapping. The line width of the dark resonance is reduced with buffer gas pressure. The behavior of the dark resonances on increasing buffer gas is discussed and possible applications are pointed out.     

Anharmonic oscillation of ions trapped in a rf trap with light buffer gas

The effect of a light buffer gas on the anharmonic oscillation of ions trapped in a rf trap is studied. The rf resonance absorption signals showed a change of the signal height and the hysteresis with the sweep direction of the dc voltage or the probing frequency due to the anharmonicity of the pseudopotential well of a rf trap. It was found that the signals changed drastically or even disappeared depending on the pressure of buffer gas, although almost the same number of ions were trapped. These effects indicate that the sensitivity of detection of the trapped ions can be improved by appropriately choosing the pressure of the buffer gas and the sweep direction. The trapped ions could be detected until 76 h 20 min and the storage time of 1.3×10⁵ s was determined when these parameters were optimized.     

Theoretical Study on NH3 Superradiant Miniature Optically Pumped Far-Infrared Laser with Buffer Gas

A miniature superradiant NH₃ optically pumped far-infrared laser (OPFIRL) with buffer gas N₂ was theoretically studied. Base on the mechanism model of buffer gas, synthetical relaxation time was calculated. By solving the semi-classic density matrix equations, spectra of NH₃ superradiant OPFIRL with buffer gas N₂ was calculated, also the operating gas pressure. It was found that by adding buffer gas, FIR power could be raised, and there existed an optimum ratio of gases mixture and an optimum operating gas pressure which was higher than that of pure NH₃ operating.     

铷光谱灯光谱自吸收现象研究

由自吸收导致的铷光谱灯超精细光谱轮廓变形,对铷原子频标的频率稳定度有不利影响.用F-P干涉仪测量了三种常用铷光谱灯的超精细光谱轮廓,研究了启辉气体种类、压力、谱灯工作温度和激励功率对自吸收的影响.结果表明,充Ar和充Kr谱灯自吸收效应比较显著,充Xe谱灯自吸收不明显;适当增大气体压力、降低灯泡工作温度、增大射频激励功率,可以减小光谱灯的自吸收效应.     

Dependence of the ^85Rb coherent population trapping resonance characteristic on the pressure of N2 buffer gas

In order to exploit its potential applications, we experimentally study the dependence of ^85 Rb-based coherent population trapping （CPTi resonance on N2 buffer gas with 6 vapor cells filled with natural rubidium and N2. The experiments are carried out at different pressures and temperatures, and the results reveal that higher cell temperature makes the resonance more sensitive to N2 pressure. Thus, it is importmlt to choose a proper buffer gas pressure at a given cell temperature. This work provides valuable data for the application of 85Rb CPT resonance with a buffer gas of N2.     

Effects of Buffer Gas on the Output of Optically Pumped NH3 Far-Infrared Cavity Laser

By solving the semi-classical density matrix equations and developing a buffer gas mechanism model, the effects of buffer gas on the output power of optically pumped NH₃ far-infrared cavity laser were calculated and verified by experiment. Our results showed that: the output power of NH₃ far-infrared laser could be increased when certain buffer gas was added into the laser medium, and there existed an optimum ratio of gases mixture and an optimum operating gas pressure which could make the output power of far-infrared laser reach maximum.     

Absorption resonances in A-type three-level system in cesium vapor cell with buffer gas

We report experimentally the transformation from the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonance to a dispersion-like signal and eventually to a nearly symmetric absorption resonance as coupling detuning increases in A-type three-level system in the cesium vapor cell with buffer gas at room temperature. The observed absorption resonance occupies some remarkable properties of the strong amplitude and the narrow linewidth in comparison with the case without buffer gas. The relation between linewidth of the enhanced absorption resonance and buffer gas pressure is studied. With pressure increasing, linewidth of the absorption resonance becomes narrow. The sub-natural linewidth is observed in Doppler-broadened cesium vapor cell in our experiment. The experimental results are in qualitative agreement with the numerical simulations.     

碰撞对钠分子梯形能级系统高位能级布居的影响

以氩气为缓冲气体,在实验上研究了碰撞过程对钠分子梯形能级系统高位能级两种布居过程的影响。对于双光子激发过程,由于消相碰撞,无多普勒加宽的洛伦兹尖峰随缓冲气体压力的增大而很快消失,加入少量缓冲气体时,碰撞激发过程对以多普勒宽度为特征的信号有一定的增强作用,但加入过量缓冲气体会由于消布居作用使信号减弱,对于主要通过碰撞实现高位能级布居的过程,加入缓冲气体对高位能级布居起关键作用,在速率方程近似下解释了上述结果。     

Pressure Dependence of the Small-Signal Gain and Saturation Intensity of a Copper Bromide Laser

A pair of copper bromide lasers in an oscillator-amplifier configuration is used to investigate the small signal gain and saturation intensity as amplifying parameters and output power of lasers, versus pressure of buffer gas. It is shown that the amplifying parameters and laser output power have a maximum value at optimum buffer gas pressure of 11 Torr. The challenge between microscopic parameters such as stimulated emission cross section, laser upper level lifetime, and population inversion, which determine the values of laser characteristics respective to the operational pressure of buffer gas, are investigated. Thus an optimum delay time of about 10 ns is determined, and a maximum output power equivalent to about 12 W is extracted. The amplifying parameters and measured output power of laser versus delay times show some local maxima and minima at the delay time interval of 6-43 ns.     

无缓冲气COIL扩压器流场数值模拟

 以无缓冲气化学氧碘激光器(COIL)实验器件的数据计算得到的混合喷管出口参数平均值作为光腔入口条件，对6种不同构型的扩压器从光腔入口至扩压器出口的流场进行了数值模拟，得出了各流场参数分布；对不同构型扩压器的流场特点、总压恢复性能进行了分析；研究了扩压器出口背压对流场参数的影响。结果表明：对于主流无缓冲气的COIL，等截面扩压器具有较好的压力恢复性能；增大扩压器出口背压可以使扩压器的压力恢复性能提高，然而，较高的背压使激波串向光腔方向移动，从而使光腔流场受到干扰，影响光腔的光束质量。     

基于脉冲CO2激光锡等离子体光刻光源的极紫外辐射光谱特性研究

研究了不同条件下脉冲放电CO₂激光烧蚀平板锡靶产生的等离子体极紫外辐射特性, 设计并建立了一套掠入射极紫外平焦场光栅光谱仪, 结合X射线CCD探测了光源在6.5～16.8 nm波段的时间积分辐射光谱,得到了极紫外光谱随激光脉宽, 入射脉冲能量及背景气压的变化规律。实验结果发现：入射激光脉冲能量在30～600 mJ变化时,极紫外辐射光谱的强度随辐照激光脉冲能量的增加而增加, 但并不是线性关系, 具有饱和效应, 且产生极紫外辐射的脉冲能量阈值约为30 mJ,当激光脉冲能量为425 mJ时具有最高的转换效率,此时中心波长13.5 nm处2%带宽内的转换效率约为1.2%。激光脉冲半高全宽在50～120 ns范围内变化时, 极紫外辐射光谱的峰值位置均位于13.5 nm,光谱形状几乎没有什么变化, 但是脉宽从120 ns变到52 ns后,由于激光功率密度的提高,极紫外辐射强度也随之增强了约1.6倍。极紫外光谱的强度随背景气压的增大而迅速下降, 当腔内空气气压为200 Pa时, 极紫外辐射光子几乎被全部吸收,而当缓冲氦气气压为7×104 Pa时,仍能够探测到微弱的极紫外辐射信号,计算表明100 Pa的空气对13.5 nm极紫外光的吸收系数为3.0 m-1,而100 Pa的He气的吸收系数为0.96 m-1。     

Stimulated processes in sodium vapour in the presence of molecular buffer gas systems

The influence of hydrocarbon compounds such as methane, ethane and ethylene on collision-induced amplified emission in sodium vapour has been investigated. The intensity dependence of the stimulated resonant emission and stimulated Raman effects on the buffer gas and sodium vapour pressures and the intensity of the excitation radiation has been obtained. The dependence of the stimulated resonant emission bandwidth on the buffer gas pressure has also been measured. It is shown that saturated hydrocarbon molecules can be used as an efficient buffer gas for the generation of stimulated emission in other alkali atoms such as rubidium and caesium.     

Pressure dependence of small signal gain and saturation intensity of a gold-vapor laser using various buffer gases in gain medium

A pair of gold-vapor laser (627.8 nm) in an oscillator-amplifier configuration was used to investigate the small signal gain, g₀, and saturation intensity, I_s, as amplifying parameters, versus pressure at various types of buffer gas. It was shown that the small signal gain decreases and saturation intensity increases linearly with increasing the pressure. Moreover, the values of these parameters are different using various gas mixtures in gain medium. Both parameters were estimated to be more at helium buffer gas atmosphere than that of neon or their mixed ones.     

Thermal electron capture in organic compound-carbon dioxide gas mixtures

The rates of free thermal electron capture were measured depending on the buffer gas (CO₂) pressure for 15 organic compounds in an ionization chamber with laser cathode photoionization. Procedures for preparing the tested gas mixtures and experimental data processing are described.     

Spectral structure of CuBr vapor laser lines

The atomic density, the buffer gas pressure, and the voltage dependence of the 510.6 nm laser line shape and its temporal evolution emitted from a Cu/CuBr vapor laser are measured. It is found that the monochromaticity of these laser lines can be improved greatly at a relative high buffer gas pressure. The temporal evolution of the line shape offers a stereoscopic view of a laser pulse. The sequence of appearance of the peaks of the line shape is governed by the intensity of the hyperfine component of the copper line.     

Resonance transition 795-nm rubidium laser using He buffer gas

We report a demonstration of a 795-nm rubidium optical resonance transition laser using a buffer gas consisting of pure ³He. This follows our recent demonstration of a hydrocarbon-free 795-nm rubidium resonance laser which used naturally-occurring He as the buffer gas. Using He gas that is isotopically enriched with ³He yields enhanced mixing of the Rb fine-structure levels. This enables efficient lasing at reduced He buffer gas pressure, improved thermal management in high average power Rb lasers and enhanced power scaling potential of such systems.     

Near infrared lasing transitions in Ar,Kr, and Xe atoms pumped by a coaxial e-beam

Optimizations of gas composition and input energy were performed for gas mixtures containing a buffer gas and either Ar, Kr or Xe as the lasing gas. The total gas pressure was varied between 1 and 14 bar and the input energy from 0.03 to 0.7 J/cm³. The excitation source was a small coaxial electron beam with a pumping length of 20 cm and a pulse length of 30 ns (FWHM). From an active volume of 13.3 cm³ a maximum output energy of 12 mJ was obtained from a gas mixture containing 0.3% Xe in Ar at a total gas pressure of 10 bar. The intrinsic efficiency was 0.9%.