预脉冲灯泵钛宝石可调谐激光器

利用预脉冲技术,可减小氙灯放电初始阻抗,使主放电电流脉冲前沿变陡,脉冲包络变窄,峰值变高,泵浦能量集中,有利于灯泵钛宝石激光输出。试验证明,在低能量（４７Ｊ）注入时,电光转换效率提高１８％,输出９５０ｍＪ;在高能量（１１６Ｊ）注入时,效率提高５％,输出能量１８１０ｍＪ。该激光器可调谐范围为６９５～９４０ｎｍ。     

New progress in Ti:Sapphire laser pumped by copper vapor laser

Because the copper vapor laser(CVL)can supply high average output power of severalhundred wattes and it's emission spectra are an excellent match for the absorption band of Ti:sapphire,the potential application of Ti:sapphire laser pumped by CVL is increasing greatly.     

Femtosecond laser filamentation with a 4 J/60 fs Ti:Sapphire laser beam: Multiple filaments and intensity clamping

Laser Physics - We used both the backscattered nitrogen fluorescence signal (BSF) and ICCD fluorescence side imaging methods to study the filament light intensity with a 4 J/60 fs Ti:sapphire laser...     

Materials processing by use of a Ti:Sapphire laser with automatically-adjustable pulse duration

We have developed an automatic pulsewidth-adjustable femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser system that can generate an output of 50 fs-1 ps in duration, and sub-mJ/pulse at a repetition rate of 1 kpps. The automatic pulse compressor enables one to control the pulsewidth in the range of 50 fs-1 ps by use of a personal computer (PC). The compressor can change the distance in-between and the tilt angle of the grating pairs by use of two stepping motors and two piezo-electric transducer(PZT) driven actuators, respectively. Both are controlled by a PC. Therefore, not only control of the pulsewidth, but also of the optical chirp becomes easy. By use of this femtosecond laser system, we fabricated a waveguide in fused quartz. The numerical aperture is chosen to 0.007 to loosely focus the femtosecond laser. The fabricated waveguides are well controllable by the incident laser pulsewidth. We also demonstrated the ablation processing of hydroxyapatite (Ca₁₀(PO₄)₆(OH)₂), which is a key component of human tooth and human bone for orthopedics and dentistry. With pulsewidth tunable output from 50 fs through 2 ps at 1 kpps, the chemical content of calcium and phosphorus is kept unchanged before and after 50-fs-2-ps laser ablation. We also demonstrated the precise ablation processing of human tooth enamel with 2 ps Ti:Sapphire laser. PACS 42.65.Re; 42.62.-b; 42.70.Ce; 42.82.Et; 61.80.Ba     

Tunable no-tracking OPO-OPA tandem in the near-infrared pumped by a Ti:Sapphire laser

We report the performance of a type-II KTP optical parametric oscillator-amplifier tandem pumped in a non-critical phase-matching configuration by a flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser, scanned from 730 to 900 nm. Tunable signal and idler wavelengths are generated from 1.065 to 1.290 µm and from 2.320 to 2.970 µm, respectively, without crystal tracking. Slope efficiency is as high as 32% for the signal conversion only. A KNbO₃ crystal has also been tested as a parametric amplifier in a no-tracking configuration and yields comparable gain.     

半导体激光器光束质量改善新技术综述

半导体激光器是一种重要的光电器件,其出射光束的质量改善在应用中具有十分重要的意义。介绍了采用折射原理的渐变折射率透镜光束改善系统,以反射原理为依据的高精度反射元件,以衍射理论为基础的二元系统和多原理结合的光束性能改善系统。对近期国内外出现的像散梯度渐变折射率透镜、液胞器件、独立反射元件等新技术进行了阐述。     

Photoinjector beam quality improvement by shaping the wavefront of a drive laser with oblique incidence

To increase the quantum efficiency (QE) of a copper photocathode and reduce the thermal emittance of an electron beam, a drive laser with oblique incidence was adopted in a BNL type photocathode rf gun. The disadvantageous effects on the beam quality caused by oblique incidence were analyzed qualitatively. A simple way to solve the problems through wavefront shaping was introduced and the beam quality was improved.     

Tunable single-mode pulsed Ti3+:Sapphire laser injection-seeded by a continuous-wave Cr3+:LiSrAlF6 laser

Spectrally pure high-power tunable single-mode operation of a pulsed Ti³⁺:sapphire laser by a tunable injection-seeding is reported. The injection laser was a cw diode laser pumped, spectrally narrowed tunable Cr³⁺:LiSrAlF₆ (Cr³⁺:LiSAF) laser with a grating in the auxiliary cavity. Single-mode tunable operation of a pulsed Ti³⁺: sapphire ring oscillator was obtained at different wavelengths in the range between 818 nm and 848 nm with a typical linewidth of 0.006 cm^-1. To extend the applicability of this operation to a differential absorption lidar system, the single-mode Ti³⁺:sapphire oscillator output was amplified and a high energy output of 38 mJ was obtained with the same linewidth.     

掺钛蓝宝石脉冲可调谐激光器在实验室中的应用

介绍了掺钛蓝宝石可调谐激光器在实验室中的应用.自行设计了波长690~900 nm之间连续可调谐激光,单脉冲能量为5 mJ,重复频率为20 Hz,激励采用波长532 nm、能量35 mJ的倍频YAG激光器,经过调谐滤波器,输出连续可调谐激光.     

Interaction of femtosecond pulses of a two-harmonic Ti:Sapphire laser with liquid media

The interaction of ultrashort laser pulses having wavelengths of 400 and 800 nm with liquid media, including organic solutions, has been experimentally studied. It is shown that transparent drops evaporate and boil (with partial mass ejection in the form of vapor and liquid fragments) in the field of ultrashort light pulse. A large-scale change in the spectrum of laser pulse during its interaction with a water particle is revealed. This change is caused by self-modulation of the light phase due to the Kerr optical nonlinearity of liquid and the formation of plasma. Filamentation in continuous liquid media is analyzed; specifically, the dependences of the number of filaments, the lasing spectrum width, the nonlinear-focusing distance, and the filamentation region diameter on the laser pulse power are measured. It is noted that there is a range of relative powers where the number of filaments very rapidly increases. It is shown that the spectral broadening at filamentation, observed for fixed pulse energy with a change in pulse width, overlaps the entire visible spectral range. This circumstance makes it possible to obtain width-tunable pulses and use them, e.g., in optoacoustic diagnostics of media.     

Generation of high-order rotational lines by four-wave Raman mixing using a high-power picosecond Ti:Sapphire laser

More than thirty rotational lines equally spaced by 587 cm^–1 are generated simultaneously in the vicinity of the fundamental line by four-wave Raman mixing using a high-power picosecond Ti:Sapphire laser as a pump source and hydrogen as a Raman medium. Since the wavelength of this multifrequency laser emission extends from the near-infrared to the near-ultraviolet, it can be utilized as a tunable light source for picosecond spectroscopy. Because of the wide spectral bandwidth available, this procedure has great potential for the generation of ultrashort laser pulses by mode-locking these emission lines.     

Flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser with different rods grown by Czochralski and Verneuil methods

The design and the development of a flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser is described. Design criteria are discussed and performance improvements using different types of fluorescent UV converters or filters, such as organic dyes or doped glass are presented. We have tested different laser rods at various Ti-concentrations obtained by Verneuil or Czochralski growth techniques. The maximum laser output energy of 540 mJ with a differential efficiency up to 1% was achieved by using only a pyrex filter surrounding the laser rod.Presented at LASERION '91, June 12–14, 1991, München (Germany)     

Efficient improvement of laser beam quality by coherent combining in an improved Michelson cavity

The efficient improvement of laser beam quality is demonstrated by coherent combining of two Nd:YVO4 lasers in an improved Michelson cavity. When the two lasers are separately operated with beam qualities of M(x)2 = 1.74 and M(y)2 = 1.34 for laser 1 and M(x)2 = 1.53 and M(y)2 = 1.39 for laser 2, by coherent combining of the two lasers, a single beam output exceeding 2 W with a nearly perfect TEM00 mode (M(x)2 = 1.08, M(y)2 = 1.04) is obtained. Moreover, it can withstand environmental perturbations with no change in beam quality or output power and has the potential for scaling to much higher output power with high beam quality by coherent addition of multiple lasers in this configuration.     

提高灯泵钛宝石激光器效率的技术途径

介绍了几种提高灯泵钛宝石激光器效率的技术途径,包括脉冲氙灯参数的选取,放电电流的优化,泵浦腔几何结构的设计,光学谐振腔参数的优化和输出耦合镜最佳透过率的选取。通过以上各项技术的完善,激光效率得到明显提高,从０．５％到２％［１］。     

Development of a high-contrast,high-peak power,Ti:Sapphire/OPCPA laser system

We report on a high-contrast, high-peak power laser system, which combines both conventional laser amplification and optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) techniques. By employing an OPCPA system after a regenerative amplifier, we have enhanced the prepulse contrast by six orders of magnitude. A prepulse contrast of better than 4.4 × 10^?11 has been measured with a high-energy broadband pulse of 24 mJ at a 10 Hz repetition rate from the OPCPA system. With a subsequent four-pass Ti:sapphire amplifier, we have achieved an amplified energy of 279 mJ and an ultrashort recompressed amplified pulse duration of 23.5 fs. We also discuss the basic design aspects and present our preliminary experimental investigations for higher energy operation to a multijoule.     

Spatial patterns induced in a laser beam by thermal nonlinearities

Stable spatial laser patterns were observed in a high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity containing up to 2 atm of CO(2) and O(2). The gases displayed the same sequence of patterns that obey a scaling law of the form P(beta)p(2), where P is the power stored in the cavity, p is the pressure of the gas, and beta is a material-dependent parameter.     

Flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser: Influence of the rod figure of merit and Ti3+ concentration

A flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser is tested with rods of various Figures of Merit (FOM from 100 to 800) and Ti³⁺ concentrations (0.1 and 0.15% by weight) and we measured the laser energy dependence as a function of these parameters. Output energies above 2 J are obtained without dye converter, leading to a 1.8% overall efficiency and a 2.2% slope efficiency. The effects of pump pulse duration by variation of the discharge capacitance are also monitored.     

自锁模钛宝石激光器多脉冲运转特性研究

对自锁模钛宝石激光器中多脉冲的特性和成因进行了较详细的分析，提出了腔内脉冲周期性散射减弱了腔内自振幅调制的理论模型。据此所作的数值模拟结果，很好地解释了实验现象。     

On the suppression of laser beam geometry fluctuations by spatial filtering

The possibility of reducing fluctuations in the geometry of a laser beam by spatial filtering is analysed, the merits of a double aperture system being pointed out. It is shown that the amount of improvement attainable is quite models, though possibly useful.     

Mode Locking in a Ti:Sapphire Laser by Means of a Coherent Absorber

JETP Letters - The regime of passive mode locking in a Ti:sapphire laser with a coherent absorber resulting in the emission of pulses with a duration considerably shorter than the absorber...