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     

基于光反馈的单向耦合注入垂直腔表面发射激光器的矢量混沌同步特性研究

基于自旋反向模型(SFM)，数值研究了基于光反馈的单向耦合注入垂直腔表面发射激光器的矢量混沌同步特性，研究结果表明：当外部光反馈时间等于光从发射系统到接收系统传输时间时， x偏振模和y偏振模都能接收最好的完全混沌同步质量.若外部光反馈时间不等于传输时间且注入电流接近阈值电流时，占主导的y偏振模能暂时实现较好的完全混沌同步质量.相比较而言，占主导地位的x偏振模至始至终获得很差的同步质量，另外，当系统输出为混合偏振模时，混合偏振模中的每一个线性偏振模获得很差完全同步质量.然而，当注入电流远大于阈值电流时，系统输出仅为y偏振模，这时y偏振模能稳定地实现最好的完全混沌同步质量.最后，当接收激光器受到线性偏振模的强注入时，每一个注入线性偏振模能与接收激光器输出的对应的线性偏振模实现很好的注入锁定同步.然而，每一个占主导的线性偏振模比另一被抑制的线性偏振模获得更差注入锁定同步质量、如果有相等的能量的两个线性偏振模同时存在，这两个线性偏振模获得差不多一致的注入锁定混同步质量， 换句话说，能量较少的线性偏振能获得较高的注入锁定同步质量. 关键词： 线性偏振态 垂直腔表面发射激光器 完全矢量混沌同步 强注入锁定矢量混沌同步     

利用锁相环和TV-Rb钟控制飞秒激光脉冲的载波包络相移

为了实现对锁模飞秒钛宝石激光器的相位控制，采用改进的相移测量装置，使载波包络频移信号的信噪比提高到了40 dB以上.在此优化测量结果的基础上，利用电子锁相环技术，通过PZT改变激光器腔内端镜的倾斜将飞秒激光脉冲的载波包络相位锁定到了微波参考源TV-Rb钟10 MHz标准信号上，同时激光脉冲重复频率也采用另一个PZT控制激光腔长锁定到了同一个TV-Rb钟10 MHz信号上.锁定后的结果显示重复频率的锁定达到了TV-Rb钟本身的稳定度，而载波包络相位锁定后比锁定前稳定度提高了三个数量级.     

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.     

注入噪声对光纤激光器锁模启动的影响

 从掺镱光纤激光器腔内的激光场出发，讨论了掺镱光纤激光器腔内的噪声信号对锁模启动的影响，并针对我们设计的8字腔超短脉冲光纤激光器进行了研究。通过对激光器腔内锁模过程的分析发现：在泵浦功率为214.75 mW时，自行研制的8字形腔掺Yb³⁺光纤激光器在未注入噪声信号时，输出端在30～50 s内获得稳定的锁模脉冲激光输出；在腔内注入脉宽30 ns，频率10 kHz，平均功率0.2 mW的脉冲噪声后，输出端在1~2 s内获得同样稳定的锁模脉冲激光输出。实验结果表明，注入激光器谐振腔内一定的噪声信号，可加速锁模的启动。     

体布拉格光栅外腔红光半导体激光器实验研究

采用反射型体布拉格光栅作为反馈元件构成红光外腔半导体激光器,对器件输出光特性进行了实验研究。重点研究了体布拉格光栅的位置对红光外腔半导体激光器远场特性的影响。实验结果表明,减小体布拉格光栅与激光器芯片之间的距离可提高激光器的锁模效果,窄化光谱,并且改善慢轴方向的光束发散角。使用衍射效率为20%的体布拉格光栅,可将半导体激光器的输出波长稳定锁定在634 nm附近,光谱线宽压缩至0.7 nm左右,输出功率可达1.06 W。     

单纵模BBO光学参量振荡器

主要对种子注入的单纵ＢＢＯ光学参量振荡器进行了实验和理论研究，利用多纵模的Ｈｅ－Ｎｅ激光器为种子注入源，在选择了合适的光学参量振荡器（ＯＰＯ）谐振腔和锁定技术后，成功地获得了单纵模光学参量振荡。种子注入功率小于１ｍＷ，线宽小于６００ＭＨＺ《     

多纵模短腔染料激光放大前后光谱的比较

实验观测了短腔染料激光器输出的多纵模激光及其经一级染料放大的激光光谱，比较了光谱特性。在一定情况下，短腔染料激光器的多纵模激光经放大器放大可产生一个至几个新纵模，新纵模与短腔染料激光器输出的纵模有相似的频率间隔、线宽及频率牵引等特征。新纵模产生属于三阶四光子混频（即四波混频）为主导的非线性光学效应。存在频率牵引表明，增益介质中的多波混频存在频率失配，在这一四波混频中光子能量并不守恒     

多纵模短腔染普激光放大前后光谱的比较

实验观测了短腔染普激光器输出的多纵模激光及其经一级染料放大的激光光谱，比较了光谱特性。在一定情况下，短腔染料激光器的多纵模激光经放大器放大可产生一个至几个新纵模，新纵模与短腔染料激光器输出的纵模有相似的频率间隔、线宽及频率牵引等特征。新纵模产生属于三阶四光子混频（即四波混频）为主导的非线性光学效应。存在频率牵引表明，增益介质中的多波混频存在频率失配，在这一四波混凝中光子能量并不守恒。     

单脉冲时间精确可控的单纵模Nd:YAG激光器

报道了一种单脉冲输出时间精确可控的单纵模Nd:YAG激光器.该激光器谐振腔采用自滤波非稳腔结构得到TEM_(00)模,利用磷酸钛氧铷电光晶体作为相位调制器来扫描腔长,通过种子注入的扫描-保持-触发技术锁定腔模,得到稳定的单脉冲输出时间精确可控的单纵模输出.该1064 nm激光器输出脉冲能量为50 mJ,脉冲建立时间48 ns,单脉冲输出时间抖动小于1%.用波长计WS7测量脉冲的波长和线宽,测量结果显示,波长计干涉仪干涉条纹清晰光滑,是典型的多光束干涉波形,显示波长为1064.40416 nm,线宽0.5 pm (波长计的极限分辨率).同时以0.1 Hz的工作频率连续记录了1700发脉冲的波长,波长抖动小于0.1 pm (峰峰值).     

Modelling the effect of slave laser gain and frequency comb spacing on the selective amplification of injection locked semiconductor lasers

A rate equation model was used to model the optical filtering properties of injection locked semiconductor lasers. Numerical and experimental results are presented which show the changes in the comb rejection ratio (CRR) of an injection locked single mode laser due to the gain of the slave laser. It was found that there is an optimal slave laser current at which the CRR of the slave laser is largest, and good qualitative agreement is present between the model and experiment. The model was also used to predict the effects of the target carrier’s position on the optical comb. It was found that locking the slave laser to the outer comb lines gave slightly worse CRRs than when locking to the central lines. It is also shown that for comb frequency spacings close to the relaxation oscillation frequency of the slave laser, the obtainable CRR is significantly decreased.     

High-resolution cavity-tuned ringdown spectrometer using a narrow-bandwidth pulsed laser source

A novel method of cavity ringdown spectroscopy is proposed to achieve high spectral resolution with tunable narrow bandwidth pulsed lasers. We demonstrate a cavity-tuned ringdown configuration in which only a single cavity mode is kept excited near the carrier frequency of a narrow bandwidth pulse laser. This is done simply by making a cavity resonance actively track the frequency reference served by the cw injection seed of the pulsed laser source. We present the servo mechanism used in the cavity resonance tracking, reliable procedures for transverse mode matching, and the evidence of single longitudinal mode excitation. The spectrometer performance is tested to record weak molecular overtone features of acetylene around the wavelength of 570 nm, showing cavity tracking stability within 5-MHz uncertainty which overcomes the bandwidth limit of pulsed laser sources itself. PACS 42.62.Fi; 42.60.Da; 33.20.Kf     

A Compact Diode-Pumped Injection Seeded Nd：YAG Laser with Resonance-Detection Technique

A diode pumped injection seeded single-longit udinal-mode （SLM） Nd： YA G laser is achieved by using the resonancedetection technique in Q-switching operation. The pulsed oscillator laser uses a folded cavity to achieve compact construction. This system operates at 100 Hz and provides over 20 m J/pulse of single-frequency 1064 nm output. The M2 values of horizontal and vertical axes are 1.58 and 1.41, respectively. The probability of putting out single-longitudinal-mode pulses is 100%. The 355 nm laser output produced by frequency tripling has a linewidth less than 200 MHz. The laser can run over eight hours continually without, mode hopping     

An intermittent frequency offset lock of a transverse Zeeman laser to an iodine stabilized He-Ne laser

A single-mode frequency stabilized laser with modulation-free and moderate power is desired as a light source for an ultra-high resolution interferometer system and/or a rapid laser calibration system. For this purpose, we developed a new stabilized laser system that utilizes intermittent control of a 2 mW transverse Zeeman stabilized He-Ne laser (Zeeman laser) with an iodine stabilized He-Ne laser (I2 stabilized laser). Because of the intermittent control, working time of the I2 stabilized laser is reduced. The Zeeman laser has two operational modes: independent and slave mode. In the independent mode, the Zeeman laser is stabilized through control of Zeeman beat frequency. Temperature dependent drift of the oscillation frequency during the independent mode is periodically corrected by the slave operation utilizing frequency offset locking to the I2 stabilized laser. Frequency instability of the Zeeman laser in independent and slave modes is 7.7X10-11 and 2.0X10-11, respectively, at the sampling time of 100 s.     

Slave-master dynamics of semiconductor laser with short external cavity

In this paper, the dynamical response of a slave semiconductor laser, with short cavity, under injection of a chaotic light from a master semiconductor laser has been widely studied. This is analyzed numerically via bifurcation diagrams, in terms of the phase and strength of the feedback, as control parameters. It is shown that, both of these parameters should be considered in the dynamical response of the slave laser. Our numerical calculations show that the dynamics of the slave laser imitates the master laser, in addition to the feedback strength, it also heavily depends on the injection dynamics and rates. Numerical results also show that for different values of the control parameters, the intensity of the slave laser output can be fully different from the injection source. However, we found out under appropriate conditions, that the dynamics of the slave can be the same as the master laser. The results also show that the output of the slave laser, compared to its output without injection, can be stabled in the appropriate values of the injection rate from the master laser.     

Diode laser spectrometer for high-resolution spectroscopy in the visible range

A high-resolution diode laser spectrometer operating at 657 nm is described. To achieve a narrow linewidth and a high power, a master-slave laser system is employed. The master laser is an extended cavity diode laser whose linewidth is reduced to less than 100 Hz by the FM sideband technique. The slave laser is an AR-coated diode laser and characteristics of injection locking are experimentally studied. The injection current of the slave laser is utilized to stabilize the output power or to produce pulsed output. Using this spectrometer, we probed the intercombination line of Ca and observed high-contrast optical Ramsey fringes with a linewidth of 10 kHz. A velocity-selective Ramsey fringe is also observed in the pulse-mode operation.     

Selective injection locking of a multi-mode semiconductor laser to a multi-frequency reference beam

Injection locking is a well known and commonly used method for coherent light amplification. Usually injection locking is obtained on a single-mode laser injected by a single-frequency seeding beam. In this work we show that selective injection locking of a single-frequency may also be achieved on a multi-mode semiconductor laser injected by a multi-frequency seeding beam, if the slave laser provides sufficient frequency filtering. This selective injection locking condition depends critically on the frequency detuning between the free-running slave emission frequency and each injected frequency component. Stable selective injection locking to a set of three seeding components separated by 1.2 GHz is obtained. This system provides an amplification up to 37 dB of each component. This result suggests that, using distinct slave lasers for each frequency line, a set of mutually coherent high-power radiation modes can be tuned in the GHz frequency domain.     

Injection locking of a diode laser locked to a Zeeman frequency stabilized laser oscillator

We describe the design and performance of an injection-locked diode laser locked to a stabilized, single frequency, unmodulated diode laser. The master oscillator is a grating-tuned, external cavity diode laser which is stabilized on a Doppler free alkali metal resonance transition frequency via Zeeman locking. The master oscillator frequency is shifted by an acousto-optic modulator, which provides optical isolation of the master oscillator laser while tuning of the acousto-optic modulation frequency can also provide frequency offset tuning. The slave laser is a free running diode which is injection-locked by a small fraction of the frequency shifted master oscillator light. Good long- and short-time frequency stability are observed for both the Zeeman-locked master oscillator and the injection-locked slave laser.     

Experimental characterization of an Yb-doped fiber ring laser with frequency-shifted feedback

We present experimental characteristics of an Yb³⁺-doped fiber ring laser operating with frequency-shifted feedback (FSF) through an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) and seeded by both a stationary continuous-wave (CW) laser and spontaneous emission. We show the spectrum and output characteristics for operations with several effective gain bandwidths, as established by Fabry-Perot etalons inside the cavity. Observation using a high finesse Fabry-Perot interferometer shows that, as expected from earlier work, although the spectrum of the FSF laser without seeding is continuous, when seeded by a CW-laser the spectrum consists of a comb of discrete modes, each offset from the seed by an integer number of AOM frequency shifts. The experimental results are in excellent quantitative agreement with the theory developed earlier [L. Yatsenko, B.W. Shore, K. Bergmann, Opt. Commun. 236 (2004) 183].