Fiber-coupled diode end-pumped Q-switched Tm,Ho:YLiF4 laser

At liquid-nitrogen temperature, at 10-kHz pulse repetition rate, Q-switched 36-ns pulses with average output power of 4 W at 2.05 μm and 4.5-W continuous wave output power with a total optical-optical conversion efficiency of 30%, were achieved from a 6% Tm, 0.5% Ho:YLiF4 laser. This laser was endpumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode emitting up to 15 W around 792 nm. The 1-m-long optical fiber carrying the pump radiation has a core diameter of 700 μm with a numerical aperture of 0.22.     

微球激光的最新研究进展

利用回音壁模式微球腔的高Q谐振原理,可以获得微球激光。研究了微球腔的特点和微球激光产生的原理,介绍了单量子点、表面栅耦合和光纤耦合三种微球激光器,讨论了获得高Q值微球腔的方法,提出采用半导体纳米微球及通过旋转电弧或者旋涂方式制成的玻璃微球,给出了微球激光器的几种应用以及当前国内外最新进展。     

微球激光的最新研究进展

 利用回音壁模式微球腔的高Q谐振原理，可以获得微球激光。研究了微球腔的特点和微球激光产生的原理，介绍了单量子点、表面栅耦合和光纤耦合三种微球激光器，讨论了获得高Q值微球腔的方法，提出采用半导体纳米微球及通过旋转电弧或者旋涂方式制成的玻璃微球，给出了微球激光器的几种应用以及当前国内外最新进展。     

Integrated Nd-doped borosilicate glass microsphere laser

A neodymium-doped BK7 glass microsphere laser integrated with a planar ion-exchanged waveguide pumped at 0.8 μm has been demonstrated. The pump radiation was launched by evanescent coupling from the waveguide, and the signal radiation was coupled out through the same waveguide, offering the potential for robustly assembled fully integrated active optical circuits. The dependence of the lasing spectra on pump power and wavelength were studied in detail to clarify the whispering-gallery-mode behavior at the pump and lasing wavelengths.     

Fiber-coupled multiplexed confocal microscope

We describe a new parallel scanning mechanism for confocal microscopy that is inherently fiber-optic compatible and that retains the simplicity of the line scanning confocal microscope. The method works by employing an incoherent fiber-optic bundle that maps a line illumination pattern back on itself on double passing, while separating the fibers that carry photons from out-of-focus sample planes. The transformation permits efficient rejection of out-of-focus photons by a slit aperture.     

Highly efficient hybrid fiber taper coupled microsphere laser

A novel hybrid fiber taper is proposed and demonstrated as the coupler in a microsphere laser system. The pump wave and the laser emission, respectively, are more efficiently coupled to and from the sphere modes with this taper structure. A 980-nm pumped erbium-ytterbium codoped phosphate microsphere laser is demonstrated in the 1550-nm band. As much as 112microW of single-frequency laser output power was measured, with a differential quantum efficiency of 12%.     

Dielectric microsphere mediated transfection using a femtosecond laser

We demonstrate the permeabilization of cell membranes by an enhanced optical field generated under polystyrene microspheres of 1000 nm diameter excited by a femtosecond laser pulse. Fluorescent molecules and short interfering RNA (siRNA) have been successfully delivered to many cells in the irradiated area by a single 80 fs laser pulse at 800 nm wavelength in the presence of antibody-conjugated polystyrene spheres. The ratios of the cells showing permeabilization were 38% and 21% for Fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextran and siRNA, respectively, at the laser fluence of 1.06 J/cm(2). The present method has advantages both in high throughput of many cell treatments and precise processing of minute areas on cell membranes.     

光纤传输激光驱动飞片实验研究

构建了一种基于光纤传输高功率激光的飞片发射系统,并测试了飞片速度.飞片膜层为三明治结构:铝烧蚀层、氧化铝隔离层和铝飞片产生层.飞片膜层采用磁控溅射技术沉积在玻璃衬底上,总厚度为5.5 μm.激光辐照铝膜层产生高温高压等离子体,驱动剩余膜层产生高速飞片,速度达数km/s.同时,实验研究了光纤传能系统的输出激光空间分布特性和传输激光能量容量,它们决定了飞片的平面性和最大速度.光纤端面损伤是限制光纤传输激光能量容量的关键因素,光纤端面通过精密机械抛光和激光预处理可以获得理想的抗激光损伤能力.采用基于光纤阵列探针的时间序列测试技术获得了飞片的平均速度,并评估了飞片的平面性.采用搭建的基于光纤传输高功率激光的飞片发射系统获得了速度达1.7 km/s、直径接近1 mm的高速飞片. 关键词： 激光驱动飞片 激光辐照 光纤阵列探针 激光等离子体     

激光合作目标用玻璃微珠的工艺原理

本文根据激光合作目标对玻璃微珠的质量要求，对玻璃微珠的制造工艺进行了研究，提出了关键技术措施，从而获得了高性能的激光合作目标用玻璃微珠     

Fiber-coupled displacement interferometry without periodic nonlinearity

Displacement interferometry is widely used for accurately characterizing nanometer and subnanometer displacements in many applications. In many modern systems, fiber delivery is desired to limit optical alignment and remove heat sources from the system, but fiber delivery can exacerbate common interferometric measurement problems, such as periodic nonlinearity, and account for fiber-induced drift. In this Letter, we describe a novel, general Joo-type interferometer that inherently has an optical reference after any fiber delivery that eliminates fiber-induced drift. This interferometer demonstrated no detectable periodic nonlinearity in both free-space and fiber-delivered variants.     

976 nm激光抽运二氧化硅微球级联拉曼散射激光的研究

利用电极放电产生的电弧高温熔融二氧化硅单锥细纤, 熔融的二氧化硅在表面张力作用下形成表面光滑的微球, 完成高品质因子微球腔的制备. 将976 nm激光通过锥光纤以倏逝场方式高效耦合入微球, 研究具有高能量密度回廊模的微球腔中的三阶非线性现象——受激拉曼散射现象. 在实验中测得了六级级联的拉曼散射激光, 各级拉曼散射激光分别测得单纵模或多纵模; 在抽运光功率不少于582.6 μW时, 测得位于1200 nm附近的拉曼散射激光; 当抽运光功率为3.014 mW时, 测得位于1287.04 nm附近的第六级拉曼散射激光. 关键词： 微球腔 锥光纤 高品质因子 拉曼散射激光     

Fiber laser using a microsphere resonator as a feedback element

We show that a glass microsphere resonator can be used as a wavelength-selective mirror in fiber lasers. Due to their high quality factor (Q approximately 10(8)), microsphere resonators possess a narrow reflection bandwidth. This feature enables construction of single-frequency fiber lasers even when the laser cavity is long. Nonlinear effects (such as stimulated Raman lasing) were also observed in our setup at relatively low pump powers.     

Fiber-coupled position sensors for aerospace applications

Fiber-coupled position sensors promise advantages over their electrical counterparts for aerospace applications such as weight savings, immunity to radiated electrical interference, and improved performance, but so far, no sensor has gained widespread acceptance. This paper describes three fiber-coupled sensors presently under development at the Boeing High Technology Center including a single track analog sensor, a sensor based on weighted number system encoding, and a sensor based on FMCW laser radar techniques. Technical difficulties encountered, customer requirements, and a summary of a standardized WDM sensor interface including a broadband LED source and a compact spectograph are also discussed.     

Development of multi-wavelength microsphere fibre laser system for potential sensor applications

A multi-wavelength microsphere laser system, using a chirped fibre Bragg grating and a microsphere resonator as wavelength-selective elements and a high dopant erbium doped fibre as the gain material, has been successfully demonstrated. The multi-wavelength generation of the laser system arises from both the microsphere whispering gallery mode selection and from the additional Raman scattering inside the microsphere cavity when the erbium laser is operating at resonance with the whispering gallery modes. Through an appropriate design and fabrication of a microsphere and of a fibre taper, a selective multi-wavelength fibre laser has been realized when the pump power is above threshold required. The laser output lines created have shown much narrower linewidths than those from conventional fibre lasers and these characteristics are particularly suitable for the range of sensor applications envisaged in the work.     

Active Q switching of a fiber laser with a microsphere resonator

We propose and demonstrate an active Q-switched fiber laser using a high-Q microsphere resonator as the Q-switching element. The laser cavity consists of an Er-doped fiber as the gain medium, a glass microsphere reflector (coupled through a fiber taper) at one end of the cavity, and a fiber Bragg grating reflector at the other end. The reflectivity of the microsphere is modulated by changing the gap between the microsphere and the fiber taper. Active Q switching is realized by oscillating the microsphere in and out of contact with the taper. Using this novel technique, we have obtained giant pulses (maximum peak power approximately 102 W, duration approximately 160 ns) at a low pump-power threshold (approximately 3 mW).     

Low threshold fiber taper coupled rare earth ion-doped chalcogenide microsphere laser

We report the applications of a low-cost and environmentally friendly chalcogenide glass, 75 Ge S2-15Ga2S3-10 Cs I,in building active microsphere laser oscillators. A silica fiber taper is used as the coupling mechanism. With an 808-nm laser diode as a pump source, we show that a high-Q(～ 6×104) laser mode could be obtained from a 75-μm diameter microsphere that is coupled with a 1.77-μm waist-diameter fiber taper. The threshold of the incident pump power is1.39 m W, which is considerably lower than those of previously reported free-space coupled chalcogenide microsphere lasers. We also note an apparent enhancement in laser power generated from this chalcogenide microsphere laser.     

Fiber-coupled writing and reading in magneto-optical media

Curie point writing and Kerr signal reading in magneto-optical disk media are accomplished with a flint glass single-mode fiber that connects the optical source (laser diode)-detector and the magneto-optical medium. The Kerr signal is detected sensitively with high stability against external disturbances such as stress and deformation of the fiber. This technique offers a simple, flexible, light, movable, and remotely settable means for signal processing of magneto-optical devices.     

Fiber-coupled dual-mode waveguide interferometer with lambda/130 fringe spacing

Predictions and measurements of a multimode waveguide interferometer operating in a fiber-coupled, "dual-mode" regime are reported. With a 1.32 microm source, a complete switching cycle of the output beam is produced by a 10.0 nm incremental change in the 8.0 microm width of the hollow planar mirror waveguide. This equates to a fringe spacing of approximately lambda/130. This is an order of magnitude smaller than previously reported results for this form of interferometer.     

适用于金属薄板焊接的柔性光纤耦合半导体激光加工光源

研制了一种单光纤耦合的柔性半导体激光加工光源,该光源由20个传导热沉封装的激光列阵以线阵合束方式耦合而成,在大通道工业水冷条件下,从600 μm芯径、NA为0.2的光纤中连续输出907 W功率,输出光束质量为47 mm·mrad,最终达到工件表面的功率密度为3.21×10⁵ W/cm²,最大插头效率达39%。该激光光源具有直接应用在金属薄板焊接的潜力。     

Large area laser surface micro/nanopatterning by contact microsphere lens arrays

Laser surface micro/nanopatterning by particle lens arrays is a well-known technique. Enhanced optical fields can be achieved on a substrate when a laser beam passes through a self-assembled monolayer of silica microspheres placed on the substrate. This enhanced optical field is responsible for ablative material removal from the substrate resulting in a patterned surface. Because of the laser ablation, the microspheres are often ejected from the substrate during laser irradiation. This is a major issue impeding this technique to be used for large area texturing. We explored the possibility to retain the spheres on the substrate surface during laser irradiation. A picosecond laser system (wavelength of 515 nm, pulse duration 6.7 ps, repetition rate 400 kHz) was employed to write patterns through the lens array on a silicon substrate. In this experimental study, the pulse energy was found to be a key factor to realize surface patterning and retain the spheres during the process. When the laser pulse energy is set within the process window, the microspheres stay on the substrate during and after laser irradiation. Periodic patterns of nanoholes can be textured on the substrate surface. The spacing between the nanoholes is determined by the diameter of the microspheres. The depth of the nanoholes varies, depending on the number of laser pulses applied and pulse energy. Large area texturing can be made using overlapping pulses obtained through laser beam scanning.