Detection of a cylindrical boundary diffraction wave emanating from a straight edge by light interaction

The paper shows that the boundary diffraction wave originating at an edge is an omnidirectional cylindrical wave. The experimental set-up used to demonstrate this property employs a He-Ne laser beam. The beam is split into three beams using a glass plate. One of the beams passes straight through, the second beam passes through the glass plate and the third beam is the reflected beam. It is shown that the interference patterns are observed in all three beams. Analysis of these patterns shows that the boundary diffraction wave originating from the edge is an omnidirectional cylindrical wave. This analysis also provides strong evidence that the boundary diffraction wave travels not only within the beam where it originates but also to the neighboring coherent beam. The energy re-distribution was also shown to be dependent on the wavelength of the incident light beam and hence provides further evidence as to why longer wave lengths disperse more compared to shorter wavelengths in white light diffraction by an edge.     

Fighting against diffraction: apodization and near field diffraction structures

Diffraction is a natural phenomenon, which occurs when waves propagate or encounter an obstacle. Diffraction is also a fundamental aspect of modern optics: all imaging systems are diffraction systems. However, like a coin has two sides, diffraction also leads to some unfavorable effects, such as an increase in the size of a beam during propagation, and a limited minimal beam size after focusing. To overcome these disadvantages set by diffraction, many techniques have been developed by various groups, including apodization techniques to reduce the divergence of a laser beam and increase the resolution, and time reversal, STED microscopy, super lenses and optical antennas to obtain resolution down to nano‐scale. This review concentrates on the diffraction of electromagnetic waves, and the ways to overcome beam divergence and the diffraction limit.     

基于图像边沿特征的强激光腔镜准直处理方法

 激光束光路自动准直系统用于高功率激光装置光束精密准直。基于某激光原型装置总体对腔镜准直调整流程,针对高功率激光系统腔镜准直过程光斑图像,仿真处理并定量分析了光斑边缘特征;结合腔镜准直监测单元光传输分析,使用激光光斑边缘不同部分曲率的相似性和光斑圆形度实现了对腔镜调节的量化评估。在腔镜准直结束时圆形度指标为12.222;边缘相似度达到99.62%。     

LiKSO4单晶体内体位相光栅引起的光衍射现象

本文报道光通过LiKSO₄单晶体产生的有规律性的衍射现象,衍射环和衍射带。观察了不同实验条件对衍射现象的影响,可以肯定这些现象是波矢k垂直于c轴的体位相光栅所产生。伴随衍射环内外各出现副环的来源尚未能理解。 关键词：     

拓宽思路进行课堂演示的一点尝试

介绍了利用激光器及改装的螺旋测微计在课堂上演示障碍边缘衍射，反射衍射、单缝衍射和散斑现象的方法及取得的教学效果．     

基于PVA／AA光致聚合物的衍射光锥产生机理及其抑制

研究了以He—Ne激光器作为记录光源,以He-Ne、Nd：YAG和He-Cd激光器作为读出光源的亚甲基蓝敏化的PVA／AA体系光致聚合物的全息衍射光锥现象。衍射光锥现象的产生是由于入射光透过全息记录材料内部的不均匀结构或缺陷所产生的噪音光栅所致。运用Ewald球对此现象产生的机理进行了解释,利用全息光散射理论结合三角学...     

A neat semi-Gaussian laser beam with no diffraction fringes: Theoretical analysis

We propose a simple optical device to convert a Gaussian laser beam into a neat semi-Gaussian laser beam without any diffraction fringe by using a spatial light modulator and a thin, sharp blade, and numerically calculate the diffracted, relative intensity distributions of both the semi-Gaussian laser field and the semi-Gaussian, pseudo-thermal light. We also study the dependence of the border width of the semi-Gaussian beam on the waist of the Gaussian beam. Our study shows that the proposed scheme can be used to cancel all diffraction fringes from both the straight edge of the blade and a finite lens aperture in all the planes vertical to the z axis and obtain a neat semi-Gaussian beam without any diffraction fringe, and find that the border width w_B of the generated semi-Gaussian beam is not dependent on the waist of the incident Gaussian beam.     

Edge diffraction of a Laguerre light beam

The phenomenon of transverse diffusion of ray amplitude along two principal orthogonal directions on the cylindrical surface of a diffracted boundary wave is observed in the diffraction of a Laguerre laser beam by the straight sharp edge of a planar safety-razor blade.     

Airy beam laser

A method to design lasers that emit an arbitrary beam profile is studied. In these lasers, output-coupling is performed by a diffraction grating that imposes a phase and amplitude distribution onto the diffracted light. A solid-state laser emitting beams with a two-dimensional Airy intensity profile is demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally. In this case, the diffraction grating adds a transverse cubic phase to the diffracted light. An Airy beam is obtained by performing optical Fourier transform of the out-coupled light. The laser beam profile and power characteristics are shown to agree with theory.     

Transversely diffusive edge speckles

A new type of speckles arising upon the diffraction of a laser beam at a sharp metal blade with an imperfect edge is discovered. The phenomenon is explained in terms of the Leontovich gradient mechanism.     

碱性品红光致聚合物薄膜的光致光衍射

本文研究了全息存储实验中以波长532 nm的半导体激光器作为记录和读出光源,碱性品红作为光敏剂的丙烯酰胺基光致聚合物薄膜的光致光衍射现 象.它可以考虑为透过全息干涉条纹的原始入射光和反射光,与来自光聚物中未曝光的不均匀表面和内部的散射光四波混频的结果.根据简并四波混频理论中的位相匹配条件对双光束全息写入时产生的衍射光锥,以及单光束辐照复现时产生的衍射光锥现象分别做出了理论解释;并且利用全息散射理论结合三角学知识对入射光的入射角与衍射光锥的锥角的依赖关系进行了深入讨论. 关键词： 全息 光致聚合物 衍射光锥 碱性品红     

缩减主光斑的衍射理论

结合理论分析和神光装置照明系统的设计,由于光的衍射作用,使通过照明系统的激光束入射到特定靶面成一光斑,为了缩减中央光斑大小,提出了一种新的系统孔径分割法,从光的衍射理论证明这种方法是有效的,使中央光斑缩小,缩减了中央光斑缓慢变化部分.     

Optical vortices generated by dislocations in a cholesteric liquid crystal

We report the observation of optical vortices in a laser beam propagating through the stripe pattern of a cholesteric liquid crystal. The liquid crystal is confined in a cell with homogeneous boundary conditions and forms a diffraction phase grating. Optical vortices are produced by edge dislocations of the cholesteric grating. The vortices show up as spots of zero light intensity in the diffraction maxima. There is one spot in each +1 and -1 diffraction maximum and two spots in diffraction maxima +2 and -2.     

Invertible dark-center diffraction of the metal film induced by femtosecond laser

We found reversible dark-center diffraction of the transmitted probe beam passing through the chromium film, which is induced by the pump femtosecond laser. The dark-center diffraction of the transmitted probe beam appears and disappears with and without the pump beam. A view of diffractive optics with binary phase plate is put forward, which explains the reversible dark-center diffractive optical phenomenon. The pre-ablated hole on the metal film can be regarded as a uniform light filed without phase modulation, the surrounding circular part around the pre-ablated hole can be regarded as “phase modulated”. Therefore, this diffraction optic view might be helpful for us to understand the phase change of the metal film introduced by the femtosecond laser pulse.     

微透镜变化对半导体激光器光束匀化效果的影响

为了实现高均匀性的半导体激光器泵浦光源,研究了成像型光束积分器中微透镜的变化对泵浦光均匀性的影响。详细讨论了微透镜数值孔径与入射光束的角度匹配的问题。推导了高斯光束经成像型光束积分器的光场分布模型,分析了微透镜的边缘衍射对光斑均匀性的影响,明确了微透镜孔径大小的取值范围,并利用ZEMAX进行了系统仿真及实验验证。结果表明,经优化后的成像型光束积分器实现了不均匀性为8.11%的矩形光斑。     

铷原子热蒸气中强非线性效应产生激光模式图样的实验研究

研究了具有高斯横向分布的连续激光束单次通过铷原子蒸气后,在近共振附近铷原子蒸气中,由强的非线性克尔效应导致激光分裂成细丝的现象,并且这些细丝的衍射图样在远场通过相干叠加,可以形成具有规则结构的斑图模式.实验上研究了输入光功率,铷泡温度和抽运激光频率相对于⁸⁵Rb原子D₂线的不同失谐位置等因素对斑图模式的影响.由于铷原子的超精细能级结构,在铷原子蒸气中同时存在与三阶非线性效应相关的四波混频现象,通过扫描探测光的频率同时观察到具有斯托克斯和反斯托克斯光子的拉曼增益现象. 关键词： 铷原子蒸气 克尔效应 自聚焦 斑图     

反射式液晶空间光调制器电控光束偏转

为获得较大的光束电控偏转范围,使用空间分辨力高达8 m的反射式液晶空间光调制器实现了对入射632 nm激光的电控偏转。利用双光束共焦干涉方法测量了液晶空间光调制器的电控相位延迟特性,最大相移量可达3。根据二元光学理论和器件的电控相位延迟特性,设计了周期台阶相位模式和相应的加载灰度图,以最大衍射效率实现对入射光束的闪耀电控偏转。结果表明:相位模式台阶数为8时,可以实现10 mrad的光束偏转,闪耀级次衍射效率可达46%。利用二元光学的衍射模型对影响衍射效率的关键因素进行了分析,认为器件较低的填充因子和周期台阶模式相位重置点诱导的指向矢回程区是限制光束衍射效率的主要因素。     

Multi-wavelength,high spatial brightness operation of a phase-locked stripe-array diode laser

Stable continuous wave multi-wavelength operation of a stripe-array diode laser with an externalcavity spectral beam combining geometry is presented. In this setup each emitter of the stripe-array is forced to operate at a different wavelength, which leads to a decoupling between the usually phase-locked emitters. With a reflective diffraction grating with a period of 300 lines per mm, 33 equidistant laser lines around a center wavelength of 978 nm were realized, spanning a spectral range of 26 nm. With this novel approach near-diffraction limited emission with a beam quality of M ² < 1.2 and an output power of 450 mW was achieved. This laser light source can be used for applications requiring low temporal but high spatial coherence.     

Study on a Bessel–Gaussian beam laser

A new concept and the method are presented to obtain a laser beam output with high luminance and quality. Instead of using the conventional concept of “obtaining a single transverse mode through compressing the oscillating mode volume using a small aperture diaphragm”, the large multimode volume and the high output power are obtained by studying the physical mechanism of the expansion and coupling between a Bessel beam and a Gaussian beam. A high quality light beam (close to the diffraction limit) with high luminance and large intensity difference between the center and the edge is achieved simultaneously.     

10.6μm激光诱导扩散中热致破坏的抑制

在半导体激光诱导扩散实验中,用连续波CO2 10．6μm激光聚焦后照射基片表面。为实现局部区域的选择扩散,激光光斑半径仅数十微米。要使曝光区温度达到扩散实验要求,必须使曝光区功率密度很高。另一方面,Si、InP等半导体材料对10．6μm波长激光的吸收系数随温度的升高而增大,这导致实验时容易产生热致破坏,损伤基片。在分析热致破坏的产生机理后,提出了在聚焦激光束照射下,曝光区温度的数值计算方法。计算结果表明,在半导体基片初始温度为室温时,以恒定功率的激光束照射基片,曝光区温度不能稳定在扩散试验需要的温度范围。在此基础上,提出了预热基片及对曝光区温度进行实时控制等抑制热致破坏的方法,有效地克服了这一困难。这对于用激光微细加工制作出高性能的单片光电集成电路(OEICs)器件有重要意义。