碳纳米管悬浮液的光限幅特性实验研究

 通过超声波降解法制备了多壁碳纳米管的水-表面活性剂悬浮液,测量了其对于1 064 nm,脉宽10 ns Nd:YAG调Q脉冲激光的光限幅曲线。实验发现：入射激光能量密度较低时,出射能量密度随入射能量密度的增加而线性增加;当入射能量密度为160 mJ/cm²时,出射能量不再线性增加并且逐渐趋近于光限幅器的嵌位输出值,约16 mJ,同时,对激光的透过率从71%下降到15%。通过Z扫描和探针光实验以及45°散射角下散射能量、散射率随入射激光能量变化曲线的测量,对碳纳米管悬浮液的光限幅机理进行了研究。结果表明：其限幅机理可能源于碳纳米管吸收激光能量后升华产生的膨胀的碳气泡对入射激光产生的非线性散射;另外,非线性折射对光限幅效果也有一定的作用。     

碳纳米管悬浮液的光限幅特性实验研究

通过超声波降解法制备了多壁碳纳米管的水-表面活性剂悬浮液,测量了其对于1 064 nm,脉宽10 ns Nd:YAG调Q脉冲激光的光限幅曲线。实验发现：入射激光能量密度较低时,出射能量密度随入射能量密度的增加而线性增加;当入射能量密度为160 mJ/cm2时,出射能量不再线性增加并且逐渐趋近于光限幅器的嵌位输出值,约16 mJ,同时,对激光的透过率从71%下降到15%。通过Z扫描和探针光实验以及45°散射角下散射能量、散射率随入射激光能量变化曲线的测量,对碳纳米管悬浮液的光限幅机理进行了研究。结果表明：其限幅机理可能源于碳纳米管吸收激光能量后升华产生的膨胀的碳气泡对入射激光产生的非线性散射;另外,非线性折射对光限幅效果也有一定的作用。     

两类介质对单色激光的吸收系数的测量与比较

实验测量并比较了铯原子气室和吸收型中性衰减片对852.356 nm单色激光的吸收系数,以及两种介质吸收系数随入射光强变化的行为.对选择吸收和普遍吸收作了分析.采用单色光场与二能级原子系统相互作用的模型,就铯原子气室对852.356 nm共振光的吸收系数随入射光强的变化规律做了分析和拟合.     

激光与半导体材料相互作用的双电子共振吸收模型

通过提出双电子共振吸收模型,解释了激光与半导体材料相互作用时材料吸收光子的物理机制,分析了温度、掺杂数密度对吸收系数的影响;结合热峰模型,将激光的能量注入视为热源,计算出了激光入射时材料中电子温度的时空演化,通过费米狄拉克分布计算出自由电荷数密度分布,得到了电荷激发过程的计算模型,模拟了激光诱发单粒子翻转的过程。模拟结果表明,激光能量与激发电荷总量的关系是非线性的,这意味着激光能量与粒子的线性能量传输之间为非线性对应关系,与实验结果相符。     

超短脉冲激光在电介质材料中传输及破坏深度微观理论计算

基于Fokker-Planck方程和激光传输方程建立超短脉冲激光在电介质材料中的传输及材料破坏理论模型,计算材料内不同位置处导带电子数密度及激光电场强度随时间的变化,进而得到激光的反射率、透射率及沉积率随激光能量密度的变化特征.选取导带电子数密度阈值作为材料破坏的判断条件,计算了不同激光能量密度下的破坏深度,发现破坏深度随激光能量密度的变化曲线呈现先增长后减小,讨论了激光能量沉积特性对破坏深度的影响.计算最大破坏深度随激光脉宽的变化发现,激光脉宽越短则最大破坏深度越小. 关键词： 超短脉冲激光 电介质材料 破坏深度 微观理论模型     

激光烧蚀掺杂金属聚合物羽流屏蔽特性数值研究

激光烧蚀推进中,烧蚀羽流对入射激光的屏蔽效应是影响推进性能的重要因素;当采用掺杂金属聚合物作为工质时,易电离金属掺杂物的引入,使屏蔽效应更加明显.本文建立了激光烧蚀掺杂金属聚合物羽流飞散及电离、屏蔽模型,计算了3—40 J/cm~2激光烧蚀掺杂微米铝颗粒聚甲醛工质的比冲,与实验数据对比表明模型能够有效模拟掺杂聚合物羽流的屏蔽特性.获得了不同激光能量密度下的电子数密度、吸收系数分布及屏蔽系数时间变化曲线.结果表明:低激光能量密度(5 J/cm~2)时,羽流屏蔽效应以未完全分解聚合物短链对入射激光能量的吸收为主;高激光能量密度(20 J/cm~2)下,羽流电子数密度逐步增大至1020m~(-3),形成明显的等离子体吸收,屏蔽系数的时间变化特征复杂.本文对掺杂金属聚合物烧蚀羽流的屏蔽特性进行了定量研究,可为激光烧蚀推进性能优化提供参考.     

硅的间接跃迁双光子吸收系数谱

利用皮秒Nd:YAG脉冲激光器作为激发光源,测量出光子能量介于1.36 μm (0.912 eV)—1.80 μm (0.689 eV)之间的硅间接跃迁双光子吸收系数谱.尽管此波段范围内的激光光子能量小于硅间接带隙,但当激光辐照在硅基光电二极管受光面时,在二极管两电极端仍然探测到了显著的脉冲光伏信号.光伏信号峰值强度与入射光强呈二次幂函数关系,表明其是双光子吸收过程.采用pn结等效结电容充放电模型,将光伏响应信号峰值与入射光强相关联,从中提取出硅的间接跃迁双光子吸收系数,改变入射波长得到系数谱.研究表明:     

基于双相延迟模型的飞秒激光烧蚀金属模型

为了分析飞秒激光烧蚀过程,在双相延迟模型的基础上建立了双曲型热传导模型.模型中考虑了靶材的加热、蒸发和相爆炸,还考虑了等离子体羽流的形成和膨胀及其与入射激光的相互作用,以及光学和热物性参数随温度的变化.研究结果表明:等离子体屏蔽对飞秒激光烧蚀过程有重要的影响,特别是在激光能量密度较高时;两个延迟时间的比值对飞秒激光烧蚀过程中靶材的温度特性和烧蚀深度有较大的影响;飞秒激光烧蚀机制主要以相爆炸为主.飞秒激光烧蚀的热影响区域较小,而且热影响区域的大小受激光能量密度的影响较小.计算结果与文献中实验结果的对比表明基于双相延迟模型的飞秒激光烧蚀模型能有效对飞秒激光烧蚀过程进行模拟.     

基于随机模拟算法的激光辐照固体材料的温升研究

热传导方程的复杂性给研究激光热损伤等问题带来了困难。随机模拟算法将热传输看成是随机的化学动力学过程,算法容易实现,适用于复杂系统随时间变化的模拟。以固体硅为例,利用该算法计算了高斯激光辐照硅表层的热传输过程,对比了传统计算方法,应用该算法探讨了吸收系数对热损伤的影响问题。计算结果表明,算法的模拟结果符合激光辐照固体材料的实际规律,可作为一种激光辐照固体热传输过程的研究方法。应用结果显示:激光辐照初期,材料的热损伤与波长有依赖关系,吸收系数较小的材料能减小对基底的热损伤概率;激光辐照后期,减小吸收系数对热损伤的影响不明显。     

飞秒激光辐照下单晶硅薄膜中超快能量输运的数值模拟

利用载流子输运模型对飞秒激光辐照下单晶硅亚微米薄膜中的能量输运过程进行数值模拟。研究了不同辐照能量密度和不同激光波长对载流子密度和温度超快变化过程的影响规律。结果表明,在800nm激光辐照下,不同入射能量密度仅影响载流子密度和温度响应的峰值,但达到峰值的时刻不变。平衡态的恢复过程受入射能量密度影响很小。在不同波长激光辐照下,光子能量越大,载流子密度和温度达到峰值所用时间越短,对应峰值越大,但衰减速度也越快。当入射光子能量大于单晶硅的直接带隙时,快速衰减时间常数可以与载流子能量弛豫时间相当。     

A novel “sandwich” method for observation of the keyhole in deep penetration laser welding

A sandwich method was used to observe the keyhole in deep penetration laser welding, which provided an effective way to analyze both the Fresnel and inverse Bremsstrahlung absorption. In the transparent metal-analog system, different densities of metal vapor, ionized atoms, and free electrons in the keyhole can be simulated by changing the thickness of aluminum films. The research results show that inverse Bremsstrahlung absorption exerts a tremendous influence on the energy absorption of the laser beam for CO₂ laser welding. Low density of keyhole plasma benefits the incident laser energy coupling to the materials. However, excess density of keyhole plasma baffles the transmission of the incident laser beam to the interior material. By comparing inflow energy and outflow energy, there exits an energy balance on the keyhole wall by balancing the absorbed laser intensity and heat flux on the wall.     

数值模拟飞秒激光加热金属的热电子发射

研究了超短超强激光脉冲与薄膜靶相互作用中产生的电子热发射.当超短激光脉冲与薄膜靶相互作用时,首先入射超短脉冲激光对吸收深度内的自由电子进行热激发,接下来热激发电子将能量传递到附近的晶格,再通过电子和晶格二体系的热传导,以及电子晶格间的热耦合,将能量传递到材料的内部.因此,电子在皮秒级甚至更短的时间内不能与晶格进行能量耦合,使电子温度超出晶格温度很多,电子热发射就变得非常明显了.用双温方程联合Richardson-Dushman方程的方法对飞秒脉冲激光照射金属靶的电子热发射进行了研究,结果发现电子热发射对飞     

First-principles electron dynamics control simulation of diamond under femtosecond laser pulse train irradiation

A real-time and real-space time-dependent density functional is applied to simulate the nonlinear electron-photon interactions during shaped femtosecond laser pulse train ablation of diamond. Effects of the key pulse train parameters such as the pulse separation, spatial/temporal pulse energy distribution and pulse number per train on the electron excitation and energy absorption are discussed. The calculations show that photon-electron interactions and transient localized electron dynamics can be controlled including photon absorption, electron excitation, electron density, and free electron distribution by the ultrafast laser pulse train.     

Hydrodynamic and Kinetic Model of Laser-Stimulated Homogenization of Volume-Structured Media

The paper is devoted to a theoretical investigation of laser-stimulated homogenization of regularly volume-structured and porous media with near-critical average density (close to the density corresponding to plasma resonance for the wavelength of the incident laser radiation). A concept of two-stage homogenization is proposed and theoretically substantiated: the first stage of fast partial smoothing of the mass distribution due to collisions of plasma flows in laser-heated and evaporated solid elements of the material structure and the second stage of slow complete smoothing of the density distribution due to viscosity dissipation of hydrodynamic perturbations. The properties of laser radiation absorption in a porous material are discussed and the high efficiency of internal “ volume” absorption of a laser pulse in porous media of average density significantly (by an order of magnitude) higher than the critical density is predicted.     

Non-Thermal Laser Ablation Model for Micro-Surgical Applications

We have developed a non-thermal laser ablation model which may reduce thermal damage to neighboring structures. Based on this model, the three critical parameters for a well controlled non-thermal microsurgery are (1) the laser wavelength with its photon energy matching closely the bond dissociation energy, (2) the energy fluence must be above threshold to avoid thermal process due to non-radiative relaxation from the excited electronic states to vibrational, (3) ultra short laser pulses (few fs) to completely eliminate thermal and direct biomolecular reactions. In this model the UV laser photon dissociates the molecular bonds which leads to the splitting of longer polymer chains into small fragments. The excess energy if any may appear as kinetic energy in the polymer-fragments. The extreme rapidity of the bond breaking process reduces heat conduction. The model establishes a relationship between ablation depth per pulse, the absorption coefficient, the incident laser energy fluence, and the threshold energy fluence. The ablation depths per pulse were calculated for the polymers Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and polyimide for various commercially available UV lasers. It has been found that the minimum ablations depth occurs at 193 nm for both PMMA and polyimide. This assures a well defined incision with minimal thermal damage to the surrounding structures at this wavelength. There exists a definite threshold energy fluence for non-thermal ablation for any given biomolecule and below the threshold the non-radiative relaxation process may cause thermal ablation. New ultra fast lasers (few femtoseconds) (fs) will completely eliminate thermal diffusion as well as direct biomolecular reactions.     

High-repetition-rate grazing-incidence pumped x-ray laser operating at 18.9 nm

We have demonstrated a 10 Hz Ni-like Mo x-ray laser operating at 18.9 nm with 150 mJ total pump energy by employing a novel pumping scheme. The grazing-incidence scheme is described, where a picosecond pulse is incident at a grazing angle to a Mo plasma column produced by a slab target irradiated by a 200 ps laser pulse. This scheme uses refraction of the short pulse at a predetermined electron density to increase absorption to pump a specific gain region. The higher coupling efficiency inherent to this scheme allows a reduction in the pump energy where 70 mJ long pulse energy and 80 mJ short pulse energy are sufficient to produce lasing at a 10 Hz repetition rate. Under these conditions and by optimizing the delay between the pulses, we achieve strong amplification and close to saturation for 4 mm long targets.     

Anomalous laser energy absorption associated with resonance saturation

Laser energy absorption measurements have been undertaken in an experiment involving the transmission of a pulse of laser radiation through sodium vapour. The wavelength of the laser was tuned to overlap the 589 nm resonance transition of the sodium atoms. Although simple radiation transport appears to account for the attenuation of the laser beam at low values of incident laser irradiance, anomalously large absorption has been observed at high values of incident laser energy. We suggest that this anomalous absorption of laser energy can be regarded as evidence of superlastic electron heating and subsequent ionization.     

Analytical solution of hyperbolic heat conduction equation in relation to laser short-pulse heating

In the present study, the hyperbolic heat conduction equation is derived from the Boltzmann transport equation and the analytical solution of the resulting equation appropriate to the laser short-pulse heating of a solid surface is presented. The time exponentially decaying pulse is incorporated as a volumetric heat source in the hyperbolic equation to account for the absorption of the incident laser energy. The Fourier transformation is used to simplify the hyperbolic equation and the analytical solution of the simplified equation is obtained using the Laplace transformation method. Temperature distribution in space and time are computed in steel for two laser pulse parameters. It is found that internal energy gain from the irradiated field, due to the presence of the volumetric heat source in the hyperbolic equation, results in rapid rise of temperature in the surface region during the early heating period. In addition, temperature decay is gradual in the surface region and as the depth below the surface increases beyond the absorption depth, temperature decay becomes sharp.