侧面抽运的掺Yb双包层光纤激光器

利用光纤角度磨抛侧面耦合新技术研究了侧面抽运的掺Yb双包层光纤激光器。实验上采取新的加工工艺获得了端面具有小锐角磨抛斜角的多模光纤,专门设计的高精密机械调整结构有效地将多模光纤的斜面和双包层光纤的侧面精确对准,通过不同的折射率匹配材料进行的研究,发现折射率匹配材料对于注入功率和抽运效率都有较大影响。实验中通过光纤角度侧面耦合器能够注入1．12W抽运光进入双包层光纤,侧面耦合效率最高可达80％。将该侧面耦合技术用于侧面抽运的掺Yb双包层光纤激光器,在单个尾纤输出的半导体激光器侧面抽运下得到光纤激光器的最大连续激光输出功率282mW,斜率效率为55．5％。实验结果表明,光纤角度磨抛耦合技术是掺Yb双包层光纤激光器的一种简单有效的侧面抽运方式。     

双包层光纤光栅选频双包层光纤激光器

双包层光纤激光器中多采用法布里珀罗(F-P)线形腔结构,谐振腔为一只二向色镜和光纤端面菲涅耳反射镜(反射率约为4％)构成,这属于一种有缺陷的腔结构,其稳定性不好,产生激光的波长很难得到有效控制,后腔镜不能精确选择激光器的输出波长,激光器的输出谱线较宽。在某些对激光波长有明确要求的应用中,该结构会受到限制。采用布拉格光纤光栅作腔镜,利用其窄带滤波特性,可以得到窄线宽的激光输出,目前报道的作为腔镜的布拉格光纤光栅为在单包层光敏光纤上制作而成,然后分别将不同反射率的光纤光栅与双包层增益光纤熔接,这给腔镜与双包层光纤之间带来很大的耦合损耗,影响了激光器的功率输出。该文报道了用相位掩模法在双包层光纤芯上写入了布拉格光纤光栅,并把此光纤光栅做为后腔镜．对长度为10m、20m的D形掺Yb^3 双包层光纤激光器进行实验研究,在1058nm附近得到稳定的窄线宽激光输出,3dB带宽为0．329nm。激光器最大输出功率为570mW。最后对实验结果进行了理论分析。     

侧面抽运掺Yb3+双包层光纤激光器的理论研究

建立了侧面抽运掺Yb3+双包层光纤激光器的数值模型,推导出激光分布的近似解析式,并进行了数值模拟,得到了光纤内抽运光和激光功率的分布特性,以及激光输出功率随抽运光注入位置,光纤长度以及端镜反射率的变化关系.结果表明,抽运光注入位置对激光分布和激光输出功率有较大的影响.     

后腔镜对掺Yb3+双包层光纤激光器性能影响的研究

采用自行研制的内包层为矩形的掺Yb^3 双包层石英光纤，以透射率不同的一组二向色镜为后腔镜构成了双包层光纤激光器。实验证明：后腔镜具有较高透射率为佳；后腔镜可以实现对激光波长的控制；激光斜率效率与后腔镜透射率之间的关系符合指数变化规律，在本实验的条件下，斜率效率的最大值约60％。     

高功率双包层光纤激光器抽运技术的方案分析

介绍了高功率光纤放大器双包层光纤的结构特点和双包层抽运的基本原理,在此基础上对高功率双包层光纤激光器的抽运关键技术作了分析,详细讨论了端面抽运技术、熔锥侧面抽运技术、内嵌反射镜抽运技术、角度抛光侧面抽运技术和V形槽侧面抽运技术等多种侧面抽运技术的结构及系统性能参数,并对各种侧面抽运技术的优缺点作了比较分析.研究结果表明,侧面抽运比端面抽运更有利于获得高功率激光输出,而在侧面抽运技术中则以V形槽侧面抽运技术为佳.     

大模场双包层光纤光栅的光谱特性

在分析大模场双包层光纤的模式特性和测试光路中光功率分配的基础上,根据耦合波理论和传输矩阵法,对不同情况下大模场双包层光纤光栅的透射谱和反射谱进行数值分析,结果表明光谱形状取决于模式间的功率分配,通过基模的透射谱可以测量双包层光纤光栅的真实反射率。采用相位掩模法制作了基模反射率不低于99.7%的20/400μm大模场双包层光纤光栅,测试了不同情况下的反射谱和透射谱,实验结果和理论分析的结论一致。     

Design of an Optical Fiber Device for Pumping a Double-Clad Fiber Laser with a Laser Diode Bar

Pumping of a rare-earth-doped double-clad fiber laser with a GaAIAs laser diode bar requires imaging the near field output of a 1 cm long one-dimensional linear array of tens of multi-mode laser diode sources onto a two-dimensional oblong cross section approximately matching the fiber’s first cladding shape. This work describes the design and preliminary implementation of a device (here called a high brightness geometric transformer) that achieves this transformation with minimum brightness loss. This is done by imaging the laser diode bar near field using a fast cylindrical micro-lens onto a linear array of N (≈10) soft-glass, thin-clad rectangular fibers; in turn, the fibers’ output ends are arranged to form a stack that matches the required first cladding shape. For a typical 20W CW, laser diode bar with brightness of 25 mW·μm²·sr^-1, the geometric transformer output brightness is 0.6 mW·μm^-2·sr⁻¹, i.e., there is a ·40 intermediate loss of brightness. If the output of the geometric transformer is used to pump a Nd-doped double-clad fiber laser, an overall brightness gain of ·340 can be achieved.Presented at the International Commission of Optics Topical Meeting, Kyoto, 1994.     

脉冲抽运掺镱脉冲光纤放大器理论研究

对主振荡功率放大器(MOPA)方式脉冲抽运双包层掺镱脉冲光纤放大器进行了理论研究,分析了放大中抽运脉冲、激光脉冲和拉曼斯托克斯光脉冲的相互作用过程.对增益光纤中上能级粒子数密度随抽运时间的变化进行了分析,求出了最佳抽运脉冲宽度.随着抽运功率的增加,放大过程中出现的受激拉曼效应(SRS)将抑制激光脉冲能量的增加,当采用最佳抽运功率时激光脉冲的能量可达到最大值.分析了光纤长度、纤芯直径对最佳抽运功率、激光脉冲和一级斯托克斯光脉冲的影响.结果表明,当最佳抽运功率时,采用纤芯较粗、长度较短的增益光纤,可以抑制受激拉曼效应,提高激光脉冲的能量与峰值功率.     

掺镱光纤激光器分段抽运方式下温度分布的理论分析

利用松弛迭代法数值求解分段抽运方式下光纤激光器的稳态速率方程组,提出了基于遗传算法对分段抽运的功率大小和光纤长度进行同时优化的方法从而实现了最佳温度分布,分析比较了双端抽运和多段抽运方式下的最佳光纤长度,最高工作温度和效率,研究表明,分段抽运方式较双端抽运方式,一方面最高工作温度大大降低并具有更为平坦的温度分布,另一方面由于最佳光纤长度的增加使得信号光衰减变大,从而导致效率略有下降.     

Wideband All-Polarization-Maintaining Yb-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Using a Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror

We report on a wide-band and stable mode-locked all-polarization-maintaining fiber iaser configuration using a noniinear optical loop mirror.The central wavelength of the laser is 1080.14 nm and the 3dB bandwidth is 20.29 nm.The repetition rate of the pulse is 3.28 MHz and the pulse width is 848 ps.By tuning the pump power,which is centered at 980 nm,from 300 mW to 380 mW,we obtain a linearly changed output power from 6mW to 7.12 mW.The all-polarization-maintaining fiber configuration is fundamental to the stability of the output power.     

双包层光纤激光器微棱镜反射式侧面耦合的新技术

提出了一种双包层光纤激光器侧面耦合技术--微棱镜反射式侧面耦合技术,能高效且方便地将半导体激光器,特别是高功率半导体激光器阵列和叠层的抽运光耦合进双包层光纤中.该技术具有结构简单、加工难度小,抽运效率高、对光纤本身无损伤等特点,更重要的是该技术非常适合半导体激光器列阵的多点抽运.详细阐述了微棱镜反射式耦合技术的基本原理和具体使用方法,理论计算所得耦合效率超过90%,并进行了初步的实验研究,得到了超过50%的耦合效率.通过分析,对光源和棱镜具体尺寸参数提出了具体要求,并指出了其应用范围.     

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Enhancement Factor Improvement in a 11.6-GHz-Linewidth 1.5-kW Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier

The stimulated Brillouin scattering(SBS) threshold enhancement factor in a pure white noise linewidth broadening Yb-doped fiber amplifier(YDFA) with a short large mode area fiber is theoretically and experimentally studied.We demonstrate a 1064.08 nm,11.6 GHz linewidth,1.5kW output power YDFA with an SBS threshold enhancement of ~57(26 W SBS threshold with single frequency seed).The output beam is near-diffraction limited with a beam quality factor of M~2 = 1.15 and a slope efficiency of up to 87%.No SBS or stimulated Raman scattering effects are observed in the whole power range.Further power scaling is limited by the available pump power in our system.     

Flat and Broadband Pulse Generated in an Er/Yb Co-Doped Double-Clad Fiber Laser

Journal of Russian Laser Research - We experimentally demonstrate the generation of a flat broadband optical pulse in an Er/Yb co-doped double-clad fiber laser based on the nonlinear polarization...     

窄线宽光纤激光器在1 030 nm波段实现3 kW近衍射极限输出

基于大模场面积掺镱光纤搭建了全光纤1 030 nm高功率窄线宽光纤激光主振荡功率放大系统,实现了3 004 W的最高功率输出,斜率效率69.27%,是目前报道的输出功率最高的1 030 nm波段近衍射极限光纤激光器。最高输出功率时,x,y方向的光束质量因子分别为1.169,1.174,3 dB光谱宽度为0.18 nm,放大自发辐射抑制比达到37 dB。     

Fabrication and Lasing Property of YbYb3+-doped Double-Clad Fibers with Novel Inner Cladding

The Yb3+-doped double-clad fibers with novel inner cladding have been made by using MCVD process, solution-doping method and optical machining together. The laser power and slope efficiency of the fiber lasers are higher than 1.8W and 50% respectively.     

Features of Laser Through-Cutting of Silicate Glass by a Fiber Ytterbium Laser

Some principal aspects of silicate glass cutting by controlled laser through thermal cleavage are considered. In particular, it is shown that the cutting speed in the case of ytterbium fiber laser radiation with a wavelength of 1.065 μm lying in fact in the glass transmission range (more precisely, in the low absorption region) depends linearly on the laser power. It is shown that the glass end face takes various geometrical shapes under various conditions of bulk heating and cooling. Therefore, to obtain a homogeneous end face, it is required to stabilize both the laser radiation power and the laser beam speed at a corresponding laser beam geometry in the cut region. Methods for obtaining various cross section shapes of the glass end face and methods for obtaining blunt edges of end faces are presented.     

10 kW cavity operation of a submillimetre CH3F laser

Operation of a CH₃F laser at 496μ has been obtained in a hemispherical optical cavity pumped by up to 42 J of 9.55μ CO₂ TEA laser radiation. Highly modulated 1μ pulses delivering 6 mJ at peak powers greater than 10 kW have been recorded.     

Diffractive coherent combining of a 2.5 kW fiber laser array into a 1.9 kW Gaussian beam

Five 500 W fiber amplifiers were coherently combined using a diffractive optical element combiner, generating a 1.93 kW beam whose M(2)=1.1 beam quality exceeded that of the inputs. Combining efficiency near 90% at low powers degraded to 79% at full power owing to thermal expansion of the fiber tip array.