HfO_2/SiO_2高反膜、增透膜及偏振膜的1064nm激光损伤特性

高反膜、增透膜和偏振膜是Nd∶YAG激光器中的关键薄膜元件 ,其抗激光损伤能力直接影响到激光器的输出能量和功率。由于优异的物理化学性能 ,高功率Nd∶YAG激光器的光学薄膜一般采用HfO2 /SiO2 膜料组合镀制 ,因而用此膜料镀制的光学薄膜的激光损伤特性是薄膜工作者重点关注的问题。对光学中心APS15 0 4镀膜机镀制的HfO2 /SiO2 高反膜、增透膜和偏振膜等开展了 10 64nm的激光损伤实验研究 ,用 2 0 0倍的Normaski显微镜详细分析了高反 ,增透和偏振膜的激光损伤图貌 ,发现对于脉宽为 10ns波长的 10 64nm的激光而言 ,高反膜基本表现为孔洞和等离子体烧蚀疤痕 ,孔洞是由薄膜中的节瘤 (nodular)缺陷的激光损伤引起的 ,损伤的能流密度较低 ,为薄膜的零损伤阈值密度。疤痕为薄膜的激光等离子体烧伤引起的 ,尺寸大小与激光能量密度成近似正比。增透膜一般为双面镀 ,分前后膜堆两种情况 ,前膜堆表现为孔洞和疤痕 ,与高反膜相似 ;后膜堆为孔洞型的小圆麻点聚积 ,麻点处的薄膜完全剥落 ,没有疤痕等烧伤痕迹 ,是激光在基片之间形成的驻波电场损毁 ,损伤阈值比前膜堆低 1 5倍 ,决定着增透膜的损伤阈值。偏振膜的低能量密度损伤与增透膜后膜堆相似 ,表现为孔洞型小麻点聚积 ,损伤处未见疤痕等烧蚀痕迹。对薄膜小尺度损?     

基于WLI原理K9基片的亚表层损伤检测

在现代激光技术的应用发展中，光学元件在其制造过程中形成的亚表层损伤是导致激光损伤的主要根源之一。光学元件亚表层的检测方法已成为光学加工领域的一个新的热点问题。利用非接触式白光干涉原理对K9基片进行亚表层损伤检测，获得基片表面至亚表面200μm深的三维立体图和纵向截切图，并精确地确定其亚表层损伤深度，以及在不同深度范围内的损伤密度。该方法与现阶段国内常用的亚表层损伤检测方法相比，具有非破坏性、纵向检测结果精确、检测过程简单快捷等特点。     

K9基片的亚表面损伤探测及化学腐蚀处理技术研究

 研究了几种类型的腐蚀液对K9基片化学腐蚀的影响。通过腐蚀液对基片纵向腐蚀速度的变化初步判断了K9基片重沉积层的深度。考察了腐蚀前后基片表面参数的变化以及腐蚀对激光损伤阈值的影响。研究表明,特定的腐蚀液能够对K9基片进行平稳可控的腐蚀,并且腐蚀能提高其激光损伤阈值,其主要原因是去除了重沉积层及表面、亚表面缺陷中的污染物,但过多的腐蚀会暴露本来为重沉积层所掩盖的划痕等亚表面缺陷,所以腐蚀并非越深越好。同时,表面各种杂质与缺陷的去除能够提高材料的机械强度,从而也有利于提高材料的激光损伤阈值。     

聚焦光在亚表面损伤介质中的散射特性

针对光学元件的亚表面缺陷,结合基于激光共焦层析的亚表层检测方法,建立聚焦光束在亚表面损伤介质中的传输模型,并采用有限元分析方法,仿真研究K9玻璃光学元件亚表层缺陷对聚焦光束的散射调制特性,特别对颗粒状和微裂纹两类特殊缺陷的光学调制特性进行研究和分析,探索了波长、缺陷大小、缺陷折射率及缺陷方向对聚焦光束散射特性的影响规律,通过分析包含亚表面损伤缺陷信息的光场分布图和强度变化曲线,获得了亚表面损伤缺陷的信息,并对其进行评价。     

高功率半导体激光对光学元件损伤特性

 为研究880 nm高功率半导体连续激光器对光学元件的损伤特性,选择了K9玻璃、ZnSe晶体和无氧铜进行镀膜加工,形成高反射率和高透过率的光学元件。通过调节到达光学元件表面的平均功率和改变光斑大小来改变光学元件表面的功率密度,并连续照射30 s,最终通过显微镜来观察元件的激光损伤形貌。研究结果表明：镀高反膜的K9玻璃在功率密度达到600 W/cm²时,膜系表面出现烧熔现象,当达到1 000 W/cm²时出现炸裂现象,而无氧铜基底镀金反射镜在上述功率密度下未发现损伤;而镀增透膜的ZnSe晶体在激光功率密度高达1 000 W/cm²时,通过显微镜观察没有发现明显的损伤,热像仪显示基底温升为5 ℃。     

化学增透膜激光疲劳损伤效应

疲劳效应是诱导高功率固体激光装置中光学元件激光损伤的因素之一,目前对SiO₂化学增透膜激光诱导疲劳损伤的研究鲜见报道。基于此,本文采用单一激光能量多发次辐照和多梯度激光能量多发次辐照两种不同的激光辐照方式,研究1064 nm化学增透膜层的激光疲劳损伤效应及特征。研究结果表明,在单一激光能量多发次脉冲激光辐照下,膜层最易发生疲劳损伤; 采用多梯度激光能量多发次辐照的方式,可以有效地提升膜层的损伤阈值,进而提升膜层的抗激光疲劳损伤性能。     

溶胶-凝胶法制备ZrO2/SiO2双层减反硬膜

以锆酸丙酯[Zr(OPr)4]、正硅酸乙酯(TEOS)为原料, 用溶胶-凝胶(sol-gel)提拉法涂膜, 制备高透过的λ/ 4～λ/ 4型ZrO2/SiO2双层减反膜.该减反膜的表面均匀, 均方根(RMS)粗糙度为1.038 nm, 平均粗糙度(RA)为0.812 nm.制备的双层减反膜具有很好的减反效果, 在石英玻璃基片二面涂膜, 在激光三倍频波长351 nm处透射比达到99.41%, 比未涂膜石英玻璃基片的透射比提高了6.14%;在基频波长1053 nm处透射比达到99.63%, 比未涂膜K9光学玻璃基片的透射比提高了7.67%.膜层具有较高的激光损伤阈值, 在激光波长为1053 nm, 脉冲宽度为1 ns时, 薄膜的激光损伤阈值达到16.8 J/cm2.膜层具有良好的耐擦除性能.     

聚乙烯醇/二氧化硅复合增透膜的制备和可清除性

 用溶胶-凝胶法制备了易清洗的聚乙烯醇/二氧化硅(PVA/SiO₂)复合增透膜。先在K9玻璃基片上镀制PVA薄膜,然后在PVA薄膜上镀上二氧化硅增透膜。用紫外可见光分光光度计、椭偏仪、光学显微镜、扫描探针显微镜和静滴接触角测量仪分别分析了膜层和基片的透射率、膜层厚度和折射率、表面形貌、水接触角等性质,用去离子水作溶剂对复合膜层进行清洗。结果表明：聚乙烯醇/二氧化硅复合增透膜峰值透射率达到99.8％,峰值透射率位置可以随SiO₂厚度而调节。复合膜层能够被热水清除,清除后基片完好,其透射率、表面形貌和水接触角与镀膜前一致。     

HfO_2/SiO_2高反射膜的缺陷及其激光损伤

用原子力、Normaski和扫描电子显微镜等分析仪器 ,对高损伤阈值薄膜常采用的 Hf O2 /Si O2 薄膜进行了表面显微图象研究 ,分析了薄膜常见的表面缺陷 ,如节瘤 ,孔洞和划痕等。薄膜表面缺陷的激光损伤实验表明 ,不同缺陷的抗激光损伤能力大不相同 ,节瘤缺陷最低 ,约为 1 5 J/ cm2 ,薄膜的损伤阈值主要由其决定 ,孔洞的激光损伤能力与节瘤相比较高 ,约为节瘤的 2～ 3倍。节瘤缺陷在低能量密度的激光损伤所形成的孔洞 ,与镀制过程中形成的孔洞形貌相似 ,激光再损伤能力也相似。低能量密度的激光把节瘤缺陷变为孔洞缺陷是激光预处理提高薄膜损伤阈值的原因之一     

矢量图解法关于最佳激光增透膜系的分析

本文指出,制备高质量的两层非λ_0/4激光增透膜的主要困难,在于各基片表面状态的不一致使得底层膜的厚度不能得到一致的精确控制。本文运用矢量图解法论证了解决上述困难的关键措施是,加镀一层膜组成三层膜系,其中最底层膜的折射率要尽量接近基片的折射率.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.