关于氦氖激光器声光调制锁模的实验研究

本实验中,将声光调制锁模器放置在氦氖激光器中的谐振腔里,控制谐振腔中的增益,使声波的频率调制与激光器固有频率间隔一致,从而达既可以到锁模的效果,又可以增加增益,减少能量损耗。通过功率计与示波器检测出激光脉宽、脉冲周、纵模间隔等物理量,与理论值进行比较,判断激光锁模实验的效果。本实验使用的氦氖激光器腔长大于1.55m,是双面全反射腔,可以利用激光锁模技术得到纵模进行比较,从而获得单色性好的超短脉冲激光。     

Cavity-enhanced optical frequency doubler based on transmission-mode Hänsch–Couillaud locking

A variant of the Hänsch–Couillaud technique for locking the pump laser frequency to a cavity-enhanced optical frequency doubler is presented. In contrast to the original scheme in which the pump laser light reflected by the enhancement cavity is monitored, the error signal for locking is obtained by polarization analysis of the light transmitted by the cavity. The cavity serves as a spectral and spatial filter for the pump beam, making the transmission-mode locking method particularly useful if the beam quality is poor. Experimental validation of the method is demonstrated by generating more than 190 mW of stable 461 nm light from a cavity-enhanced frequency doubler that is pumped by a diode laser system.     

用于提高种子注入Nd：YAG激光器性能的一种光学补偿方法的设计计算

分析了利用干涉法实现腔模锁定的种子激光器的工作原理，在此基础上提出了偏转检测器法补偿由于信号处理可引起的滞后，为种子注入激光器的腔模锁定技术的提供了新的改进方法，可方便而有效地控制从振荡器的输出光质。     

基于KTP键合晶体的Hansch-Couillaud双波长外腔频率锁定机理

基于KTP键合晶体采用Hansch-Couillaud频率锁定技术实现了双波长外腔同时共振,理论和实验上分别研究了基于键合KTP晶体的HC频率锁定方案. 研究表明,与采用单KTP晶体的结果相比,采用键合KTP晶体进行HC锁频时,能将激光频率分别锁定到e₁光或e₂光的共振峰值. 实验中将环形腔腔模频率锁定到938nm激光器的输出频率上,1583nm激光器的输出频率锁定到环形腔腔模频率上,从而实现了三者之间的相位关联锁定. 关键词： 键合KTP晶体 Hansch-Couillaud锁频 双波长外腔共振     

Direct generation of a 10 GHz 816 fs pulse train from an erbium-fiber soliton laser with asynchronous phase modulation

By employing the technique of asynchronous mode locking, we have successfully demonstrated direct generation of stable 10 GHz 816 fs pulse trains with a supermode-suppression ratio >70 dB from a hybrid mode-locked Er-fiber laser. When the modulation frequency deviates from the cavity harmonic frequency by 15-40 kHz, stable femtosecond soliton pulses are formed. Our results demonstrate that asynchronous mode locking can act as an effective mechanism for achieving a shorter pulse width and for stabilizing high-repetition-rate pulse trains in soliton fiber lasers.     

小型TEA CO2激光器的复合腔注入锁定技术

提出了一种新的小型ＴＥＡ ＣＯ２激光锁定技术－复合腔注入锁定技术，并介绍了它的原理。从理论上分析了复合腔注入锁定激光器的频率特性。给出了复合腔注入锁定试验研究的初步结果。     

Iodine stabilised He-Ne Laser

A single mode He-Ne laser operating at 6328 Å is used with an iodine cell in the cavity to detect the absorption components of iodine falling within the gain curve of the laser line. Experimental details are given for locking the frequency of the laser line with one of the hyperfine components of the iodine absorption line, using a servo-control system. The system uses the technique of detecting the first and third harmonics of the modulation frequency.     

Fast, low-noise, mode-by-mode, cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy by diode-laser self-locking

A new technique of cavity enhanced absorption spectroscopy is described. Molecular absorption spectra are obtained by recording the transmission maxima of the successive TEM_oo resonances of a high-finesse optical cavity when a Distributed Feedback Diode Laser is tuned across them. A noisy cavity output is usually observed in such a measurement since the resonances are spectrally narrower than the laser. We show that a folded (V-shaped) cavity can be used to obtain selective optical feedback from the intracavity field which builds up at resonance. This induces laser linewidth reduction and frequency locking. The linewidth narrowing eliminates the noisy cavity output, and allows measuring the maximum mode transmissions accurately. The frequency locking permits the laser to scan stepwise through the successive cavity modes. Frequency tuning is thus tightly optimized for cavity mode injection. Our setup for this technique of Optical-Feedback Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy (OF-CEAS) includes a 50 cm folded cavity with finesse ∼20 000 (ringdown time ∼20 μs) and allows recording spectra of up to 200 cavity modes (2 cm⁻¹) using 100 ms laser scans. We obtain a noise equivalent absorption coefficient of ∼5×10⁻¹⁰ cm⁻¹ for 1 s averaging over scans, with a dynamic range of four orders of magnitude.     

Recent advances in laser self-injection locking to high-Q microresonators

The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency by means of an external cavity are nearly ubiquitously used in fundamental research and laser applications. While most of the laser light transmits through the cavity, in the presence of some back-scattered light from the cavity to the laser, the self-injection locking effect can take place, which locks the laser emission frequency to the cavity mode of similar frequency. The self-injection locking leads to dramatic reduction of laser linewidth and noise. Using this approach, a common semiconductor laser locked to an ultrahigh-Q microresonator can obtain sub-Hertz linewidth, on par with state-of-the-art fiber lasers. Therefore it paves the way to manufacture high-performance semiconductor lasers with reduced footprint and cost. Moreover, with high laser power, the optical nonlinearity of the microresonator drastically changes the laser dynamics, offering routes for simultaneous pulse and frequency comb generation in the same microresonator. Particularly, integrated photonics technology, enabling components fabricated via semiconductor CMOS process, has brought increasing and extending interest to laser manufacturing using this method. In this article, we present a comprehensive tutorial on analytical and numerical methods of laser self-injection locking, as well a review of most recent theoretical and experimental achievements.     

一种连续Nd：YAG激光锁模的新技术

本文首次报道了在连续运转的Ｎｄ：ＹＡＧ激光器上通过移动腔镜实现锁模的实验研究。获得平均宽度为６０ｐｓ的锁模脉冲序列。文中提出了实验结果的初步解释，表明这种锁模现象是一种增强的自锁模。     

Low-Frequency Fluctuation and Frequency-Locking in Semiconductor Lasers with Long External Cavity Feedback

The properties of low-frequency fluctuations in semiconductor lasers with optical feedback from a long external cavity are experimentally studied. Frequency-locking of the laser light output to the injection current modulation is observed when the modulation frequency approaches the external cavity mode. The modulation frequency for the successful frequency-locking is always less than the external cavity mode frequency and the locking domains as a function of the modulation amplitude is asymmetric with respect to the frequency detuning.     

FM dye lasers

We have investigated the detailed operation of a frequency modulated dye laser (FML). The FML consists of a standing wave Rh6G dye laser with an intracavity transverse ADP phase modulator which is driven at a frequency close to the cavity mode spacing. An ideal FML output consists of a laser beam which is constant in amplitude but sinusoidally varying in frequency. This provides a source of many laser modes which are equally spaced by the modulation frequency. Several dye laser configurations have been investigated. Measurements of the mode intensities, total power, amplitude modulation and rf beat amplitudes have been made as a function of the rf driving frequency of the phase modulator. The FM laser obtained has been frequency stabilised by locking it to a reference interferometer and also by frequency offset locking it to a single-frequency dye laser.     

注入锁定改善大口径稳定腔CuBr激光器的输出特性

报道了在稳定腔中采用注入锁定技术，钭自锁模ＣｕＢｒ激光脉冲成功地进行了注入锁定放大，得到了高平均功率的锁模铜激光脉冲，并且通过这种注入锁定，首次在稳定腔中得到了在２０ｍｍ光斑内空间高度相干的高功率铜激光辐射。     

Mode interaction in a spatially inhomogeneous laser

In this paper the influence of spatial matter inhomogeneities on laser action is investigated theoretically. The calculations are based on nonlinear laser theory for the amplitudes of the empty-cavity modes. The nonlinear mode interactions like mode suppression or phase locking are modified by spatial inhomogeneities. There also arises a linear coupling among the cavity modes in general leading to monochromatically oscillating states which are superpositions of the empty-cavity eigenfunctions.     

The acousto-optic Q-switched mode-locking Nd:YVO4 laser

Q-switched mode locking (QML) has been observed in acousto-optic Q-switched Nd:YVO₄ laser that contained no mode-locking components. It was found that QML was easily realized in a long cavity and the modulation depth was observed to increase with increased cavity length. The maximum modulation depth was as high as 90%. This phenomenon is explained by the introduction of gain-related effect in the gain medium. The longitudinal modes at higher frequency, than the central frequency of the gain profile, experience positive guiding, which results in mode locking of these modes.     

光梳主动滤波放大实现锶原子光钟二级冷却光源

提出一种结合注入锁定技术的主动滤波放大方法,将光梳直接注入锁定至光栅外腔半导体激光器,产生窄线宽激光光源,该光源可以用于锶原子光钟二级冷却.实验中,将中心波长为689 nm,带宽为10 nm的光梳种子光源注入689 nm光栅式外腔半导体激光器,通过半导体增益光谱与半导体光栅外腔,从飞秒光梳的多个纵模梳齿中挑选出一个纵模模式来进行增益放大,再通过模式竞争,实现单纵模连续光输出;同时,光梳的重复频率锁定在线宽为赫兹量级的698 nm超稳激光光源上,因此,注入锁定后输出的窄线宽激光也继承了超稳激光光源的光谱特性.利用得到的输出功率为12 mW的689 nm窄线宽激光光源实现了88Sr原子光钟的二级冷却过程,最终获得温度为3μK,原子数约为5×10~6的冷原子团.该方法可拓展至原子光钟其他光源的获得,从而实现原子光钟的集成化和小型化.     

Erbium-doped fiber laser simultaneously mode locked on more than 24 wavelengths at room temperature

We demonstrate simultaneous mode locking of more than 24 wavelengths at 3 GHz in an actively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser operating at room temperature. The multiwavelength operation is achieved when a frequency shifter and an all-fiber 50-GHz periodic filter are inserted into a ring cavity. Active mode locking is performed with an amplitude modulator, and pulses with a FWHM of 30 ps are obtained.     

用于激光冷却的半导体激光器大频差边模注入锁定的理论及实验研究

利用注入锁定技术实现了与自由运转频率相差1300?GHz的大功率半导体激光器的边模注入 锁定.实验上利用饱和吸收谱和光学外差拍方法详细研究了锁定后主从激光器之间的相干转 移特性,并测量了注入光功率与锁频范围的关系和注入锁定模式建立过程,与利用带注入项 的多模速率方程得到的边模注入锁定的范围相吻合.理论上计算了实现边模注入锁定所满足 的注入光阈值条件,并作了实验验证. 关键词：     

Mode competition and frequency locking

A theoretical study is presented of frequency locking to be observed in lasers with broad homogeneous emission lines, when the cavity losses are reduced, at a certain frequency ω₀, by placing inside the cavity a suitable element (e.g., a selectively reflecting “mirror”). Two kinds of locking effects are analyzed: i) When tuning the center frequency of the laser output ω_f towards ω₀, by means of a filter or a grating, the laser frequency becomes locked to ω₀, when |ω_f ? ω₀| reaches a critical value. ii) In the absence of frequency-selective elements, the laser oscillates only in a narrow spectral range centered at ω₀. Special emphasis is given to the role played by mode competition in these locking phenomena.     

External optical feedback effects in a frequency locking dual frequency laser

We present a systematic study of external optical feedback effects on the output characteristics of the two orthogonally polarized modes in a frequency locking dual frequency laser. Accompanied by the change of the external cavity length, the length of the resonance cavity is changed very slowly to set the oscillating modes sweeping across the laser gain curve. Comprehensive results are obtained and a strong mode competition is observed. Particularly, when the laser runs in the middle region of the gain curve, which mode can oscillate is determined by the movement direction of the external feedback mirror. Based on the phenomenon, a displacement sensor with directional discrimination is proposed and its capability is also discussed.