FIR NH3 cascade laser excited by a Q-switch laser

Short FIR laser pulses of high repetition rate are obtained by pumping NH₃ with the pulses of a passively Q-switched IR laser. The two cascade laser transitions observed show coupled relaxation oscillations. The pulse shapes and delay times are qualitatively in agreement with a four-level rate-equation model.Partially supported by Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftOn leave from Korea Standards Research Institute, Dae Deog Dan Ji, P.O. Box 3, Choong Nam, Korea, supported by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation     

Low-threshold continuous-wave Tm3+:YAlO3 laser

We describe a continuous-wave, low-threshold Tm:YAlO₃ (Tm:YAP) laser operating at 1945 nm with incident threshold pump powers in the 10–20 mW range. The z-cavity containing a 2-mm-long Tm:YAP crystal with 4 at.% Tm³⁺ concentration was end pumped by a continuous-wave Ti:sapphire laser at 795 nm. Tight focusing of the pump and the laser beams enabled low-threshold operation. The power performance of two different cavity configurations with 5-cm radius (R = 5 cm cavity) and 10-cm radius (R = 10 cm cavity) curved mirrors was tested. The best performance was obtained with the R = 10 cm configuration, where, the incident threshold pump power could be lowered to 10 mW after optimizing the polarization direction of the pump beam and by employing double pumping. Theoretical estimation of the threshold power was in good agreement with the experimental observations. The laser could be further tuned from 1842 to 1994 nm.     

Resonant pumping far-infrared NH3 laser

A far-infrared (FIR) NH₃ laser was resonantly pumped with a line-tunable infrared (IR) NH₃ laser. The number of the observed FIR laser lines amounted to 33. Most of them belonged toaR(J,K) rotation-inversion transition in (0, 1, 0, 0) vibrational state. The line tunability of sealed-off FIR NH₃ laser was almost achieved in 90, 115, 150, and 220 m wavelength regions by the selective line tuning of the pumping IR NH₃ laser.     

Nd3+ laser crystal efficiency

Characteristic laser efficiency parameters important to Nd³⁺ doped in various crystalline materials are analyzed. Nd³⁺: LaF₃ was used as a comparative example. Overall laser-crystal performance contributions are emphasized in discussing each parameter. An overview table was compiled containing parameters for comparison of a wide range of crystalline hosts, according to groups of references.     

Short-wavelength far-infrared laser cavity yielding new laser emissions in CD3OH

A significantly improved far-infrared laser has been used to generate optically pumped laser emissions from 26 to 150 μm for CD₃OH. Using an X–V-pumping geometry, several new laser emissions have been found for CD₃OH. In addition, an increase in power, by factors from 10 to 1000, for many of the previously known shorter-wavelength laser lines, below 100 μm, has been observed. Frequency measurements for several lines have also been performed and have been reported to a fractional uncertainty up to ±2×10^-7, permitting the spectroscopic assignment of the laser transition. One of the frequency-measured lines, 44.256 μm observed using the 10R34 pump, has confirmed the assignment of the previously reported FIR emission (n,K;J)=(1,7;20)?(0,8;20)A in the ground vibrational state. Received: 26 October 2000 / Published online: 7 February 2001     

UV laser photofragment GaCH3 detected by far UV laser mass spectrometry

The GaCH₃ radical has been directly detected by far UV laser mass spectrometry for the first time, as a UV laser photofragment from gaseous trimethylgallium Ga(CH₃)₃, but not from triethylgallium, Ga(C₂H₅)₃. The relative yield Y() of GaCH₃ was measured, at various UV photolysis laser wavelengths =193, 210 and 245 nm, and follows the absorption spectrum of the Ga(CH₃)₃ precursor molecules.     

Kinetics of helium 3 laser optical pumping

We report on optical pumping experiments in helium-3 using a new broad-band, all fiber laser at 1083 nm. The kinetics of polarization build-up are compared to the numerical results of an appropriate model. Effects of laser power and bandwidth are discussed. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

A 3% efficiency N2 laser

A 3% efficiency, crossed-field type, N₂ laser (337.1 nm) has been developed, based on very low inductance circuits (coaxial configuration) and a careful selection of their resonance frequencies.     

Six-Watt mid-infrared laser using harmonic generation with Tl3AsSe3

An output of 6 W at 30 kHz was achieved using Tl₃AsSe₃ as the nonlinear second-harmonic generator. It was pumped with a CO₂ laser source at a wavelength of 9.25 m with 20 ns pulses, and the laser beam was focussed to a spot size of 150 m. The focussed spot was scanned to reduce the continuous-wave power loading, and the system could be operated for extended periods of time under these conditions.     

3d D lifetime in laser cooled Ca : Influence of cooling laser power

We have measured the lifetime of the metastable 3D _5/2 level in Ca⁺ using the “quantum jump" technique on a single stored and laser cooled ion in a linear Paul trap. We found a linear dependence of the measured decay rate on the power of the laser which repumps the ions from the long lived 3D _3/2 level. This can be explained by off-resonant depletion of the 3D _5/2 level. The proper lifetime of this level is obtained by a linear extrapolation of the measured lifetime to zero laser power. We obtain 1100(18) ms in agreement with theoretical calculations. The observed systematic change of the decay rate resolves discrepancies between earlier experiments in which this effect had not been considered. Measurements on a linear chain of 10 laser cooled ions showed unexpected frequent coincidences of quantum jumps within our observation time of 20 ms. This indicates a so far unexplained correlation between the ions in the chain at large distances. Received 3 March 1999     

Tunable single-mode pulsed Ti3+:Sapphire laser injection-seeded by a continuous-wave Cr3+:LiSrAlF6 laser

Spectrally pure high-power tunable single-mode operation of a pulsed Ti³⁺:sapphire laser by a tunable injection-seeding is reported. The injection laser was a cw diode laser pumped, spectrally narrowed tunable Cr³⁺:LiSrAlF₆ (Cr³⁺:LiSAF) laser with a grating in the auxiliary cavity. Single-mode tunable operation of a pulsed Ti³⁺: sapphire ring oscillator was obtained at different wavelengths in the range between 818 nm and 848 nm with a typical linewidth of 0.006 cm^-1. To extend the applicability of this operation to a differential absorption lidar system, the single-mode Ti³⁺:sapphire oscillator output was amplified and a high energy output of 38 mJ was obtained with the same linewidth.     

Femtosecond laser 3D fabrication of whispering-gallerymode microcavities

Whispering-gallery-mode(WGM) microcavities with high-quality factors and small volumes have attracted intense interests in the past decades because of their potential applications in various research fields such as quantum information, sensing, and optoelectronics. This leads to rapid advance in a variety of processing technologies that can create high-quality WGM micro-cavities. Due to the unique characteristics of femtosecond laser pulses with high peak intensity and ultrashort pulse duration, femtosecond laser shows the ability to carry out ultrahigh precision micromachining of a variety of transparent materials through nonlinear multiphoton absorption and tunneling ionization. This review paper describes the basic principle of femtosecond laser direct writing, and presents an overview of recent progress concerning femtosecond laser three-dimensional(3D) fabrications of optical WGM microcavities, which include the advances in the fabrications of passive and active WGMs microcavities in a variety of materials such as polymer, glass and crystals, as well as in processing the integrated WGM-microcavity device. Lastly, a summary of this dynamic field with a future perspective is given.     

CsPbBr_3 nanocrystal for mode-locking Tm-doped fiber laser

CsPbBr_3 nanocrystal is used as the saturable absorber(SA) for mode-locking Tm-doped fiber laser in a ring fiber cavity.The modulation depth, saturable intensity, and non-saturable loss of the fabricated SA are 14.1%, 2.5 MW/cm~2,and 5.9%, respectively.In the mode-locking operation, the mode-locked pulse train has a repetition rate of 16.6 MHz with pulse width of 24.2 ps.The laser wavelength is centered at 1992.9 nm with 3-dB spectrum width of 2.5 nm.The maximum output power is 110 mW with slope efficiency of 7.1%.Our experiment shows that CsPbBr_3 nanocrystal can be used as an efficient SA in the 2-μm wavelength region.     

光谱线宽与中心波长可同时调谐的高功率光纤激光实现3 kW输出

光谱灵活可调的高功率光纤激光在光谱合束、光声光谱检测和非线性频率变换等方面具有独特优势,近年来受到国内外研究人员的广泛关注。基于光谱灵活可调的超荧光光纤种子源,通过主振荡功率放大器结构实现了光谱中心波长1065～1085 nm可调谐、3 dB线宽2.4～13.8 nm可调谐的3 kW光纤激光输出。

     

Self-pulsing in Er3+-doped fibre laser

The output intensity of an erbium-doped fibre laser was studied. Experiments were performed with three pumping wavelengths: 514.5 nm, 810 nm and 980 nm. The laser output intensity exhibits three different dynamical behaviours: steady-state, sinusoidal variation or self-pulsing. In particular, in a bad (high-loss) cavity configuration, when the pumping ratio is increased above the lasing threshold the output intensity changes continuously from a steady-state to an infinite train of pulses. We also show that, depending on the cavity configuration, the transient oscillations display different forms.     

反应堆核泵浦^3He—Ar—Xe气体激光腔内能量沉积数值模拟研究

在TRIM软件计算结果的基础上利用蒙卡方法编制了能量沉积效率与损失率的EDL计算软件,模拟了计算了泵浦腔尺寸、混合气体中^3He分压等参数与能量沉积密度之间的关系,研究了反应堆核泵浦激光腔内的能量沉积问题,推导了了能量沉积密度的函数关系式。     

Laser spectroscopy : 3. Linear laser spectroscopy

The three basic methods of linear laser spectroscopy are reviewed: absorption, opto-acoustic, and fluorescence spectroscopy. The characteristics of each method and their areas of application are presented and compared.     

Single 3D laser projector with speckle suppression

In this letter, a new single three-dimensional （3D） laser projector is proposed. As liquid crystal （LC） can produce two image patterns with orthogonal polarization states at 120 Hz, only one projector is required in this approach for reconstruction of a 3D object. The light source is made up of RGB （red, green, and blue） lasers because laser has lots of advantages such as longer life, higher brightness, and larger color gamut. A novel diffusive media with good polarization-maintaining quality is used as rear projection screen for its high transmission efficiency （-90%） and low reflection efficiency. When laser incidents into the diffusive media, which contains lots of spherical particles with sizes between 2 and 15 μm, laser is scattered randomly and the laser speckle is reduced. A spatial phase mask is also inserted into the optical path to reduce speckle. With these techniques, the speckle contrast is reduced to 0.1 and the quality of image oatterns has been greatlv imoroved.     

Diode-pumped 1.7-W erbium 3-mum fiber laser

We report what is to our knowledge the first 3-mu;m fiber laser of the 1-W class. 1.7 W of output power and 17.3% slope efficiency (with respect to the launched pump power) at a wavelength of 2.71mum are demonstrated from a double-clad erbium-doped ZBLAN fiber diode pumped at 790 nm. Energy transfer from the Er(3+) lower laser level to a Pr(3+) codopant decreases ground-state bleaching and excited-state absorption, thus avoiding output-power saturation. This result represents more than an order-of-magnitude improvement over previous work of which we are aware. Advantages over current crystal-laser designs include nearly transverse-fundamental-mode operation, reduced thermal effects, and ease of use, e.g., in medical endoscopy.     

Absorption measurements using CW MIR NH3 laser

The intensity and half-widths of the v₂ [sP(7,0)] line of ammonia have been measured using an optically pumped CW NH₃ laser. The influence of buffer gas is reported.