采用飞秒光纤激光同步泵浦的自启动锁模钛宝石激光研究

针对常规连续激光泵浦钛宝石激光振荡器不能自启动锁模的缺点,采用倍频飞秒光纤激光同步泵浦,通过调节振荡器腔长与泵浦腔长匹配,实现了飞秒钛宝石激光的自启动锁模。实验中采用3.4 W的倍频掺镱光纤激光同步泵浦钛宝石激光振荡器,获得了平均功率大于130 mW、重复频率75 MHz、光谱宽度大于47 nm、脉冲宽度17 fs的锁模脉冲输出,不仅能够稳定可靠地实现自启动锁模,解决了常规钛宝石激光振荡器锁模启动的困难,而且还具有同步输出1040,800,520 nm三束飞秒激光的特点,为进一步开展飞秒激光相干合成以及光参量放大等研究提供了优势基础。     

亚10 fs激光脉冲产生中的受激拉曼散射与四波混频效应

自行搭建的自锁模钛宝石激光器工作在下稳区的上边界附近,采用熔融石英棱镜对在激光器谐振腔的腔内和腔外同时进行群速度色散补偿.随着腔内棱镜对提供色散补偿的变化,输出激光脉冲的频谱会突然展宽至664—840nm,其空间模式也由基横模变化至衍射环状结构,这是受激拉曼散射和四波混频效应导致锁模激光脉冲频谱进一步展宽的结果.在此状态下自锁模钛宝石激光器可实现670—865nm范围的波长调谐.如此宽的频谱为钛宝石激光器产生亚10fs激光脉冲提供了必要的条件. 关键词： 飞秒激光脉冲 受激拉曼散射 四波混频 群速度色散     

基于啁啾光纤布拉格光栅的掺镱保偏锁模光纤激光研究

利用啁啾光纤布拉格光栅作为光谱滤波器和色散控制元件来控制掺镱保偏锁模光纤激光的光谱形状和腔内色散.实验装置采用线性腔设计,利用半导体饱和吸收镜作为锁模器件,实现掺镱保偏光纤激光器的被动锁模激光输出.当泵浦功率为52 mW时,获得了脉冲宽度为4.26ps,重复频率为15.7 MHz,平均功率为9.8mW的稳定锁模脉冲激光输出.输出激光中心波长为1 030nm,3dB谱宽为7.2nm,对应理想傅里叶变换极限脉宽约为150fs.     

303MHz高重复频率掺Er光纤飞秒激光器

高重复频率掺Er光纤飞秒激光器在光学频率梳、超高速光学采样等领域具有很重要的作用. 本文采用非线性偏振旋转锁模机理, 在掺Er光纤飞秒激光器中实现了重复频率为303 MHz的锁模脉冲输出. 通过优化腔内色散, 激光器腔内色散在零色散附近偏负值, 锁模后工作在展宽脉冲锁模状态. 在817 mW抽运功率下, 激光器在连续光状态下可以输出125 mW的平均功率, 在锁模状态下可以输出69 mW的平均功率, 脉冲宽度为90 fs. 当抽运功率处于700-817 mW时, 激光器可以实现自启动锁模. 激光器重复频率在5 h内的漂移量为30 Hz.     

4.5MW小型化全固态腔倒空飞秒掺钛蓝宝石激光器

研制了国内首台腔倒空克尔透镜自锁模掺钛蓝宝石激光器,该激光采用二极管抽运的全固态连续波532nm激光抽运.在5.4W的抽运功率下,获得了峰值功率大于4.5MW、脉宽小于18fs的稳定锁模脉冲,其重复频率可低至20kHz,所占尺寸约53.5cm×20.5cm.据知,此结果是迄今重复率最低、结构最紧凑的声光腔倒空飞秒激光器件 关键词： 掺钛蓝宝石 腔倒空 飞秒脉冲 克尔透镜锁模     

无展宽器的高重复率钛宝石啁啾飞秒脉冲再生放大器的研究

通过优化放大腔结构参数和采用高光束质量的泵浦激光,依靠放大器腔内各个元件的色散展宽种子脉冲, 用钛宝石作为增益介质, 在低泵浦能量下, 实现了高光束质量,高稳定的中等能量的高重复率飞秒脉冲再生放大. 将钛宝石晶体离焦放置,有效的避免了光学损伤. 在1.1 mJ的绿光泵浦下, 获得了2 ps, 120 μJ, 重复频率为1 KHz, 光谱带宽7.8 nm的放大脉冲, 用石英棱镜对压缩可得到130 fs的激光脉冲.     

基于固体薄片超连续飞秒光源驱动的高次谐波产生实验

本文报道了采用基于熔石英薄片超连续的少周期飞秒光源驱动高次谐波产生的实验研究.实验中通过将重复频率1kHz的飞秒钛宝石激光放大器所输出的能量0.8mJ、脉宽30fs的脉冲聚焦到7片0.1mm厚的熔融石英片中,得到了覆盖带宽大于倍频程的展宽光谱.利用啁啾镜补偿色散后,经瞬态光栅频率分辨光学开关法测得脉宽为6.3fs,对应约2.3个光学周期.利用压缩后的激光脉冲聚焦作用于惰性气体,并通过调节尖劈插入量改变脉宽,分别测得了分立以及连续的高次谐波截止区信号,结果与6.3fs的脉冲宽度相符合.     

皮秒激光泵浦的亚10fs钛宝石激光器

研制了高稳定Nd∶YVO_4皮秒激光振荡器,并在15 W、808nm激光泵浦下得到6 W的连续锁模皮秒激光输出,光-光效率为40%.对该皮秒激光进行单通放大后得到14 W的基频光输出,倍频后可以得到7 W的532nm皮秒激光,用作钛宝石振荡器的泵浦源.在4.5 W的皮秒532nm激光泵浦下,结合腔外压缩,得到了脉宽为9.4fs、平均功率为150mW的脉冲序列输出.调节钛宝石振荡器的腔长使其与皮秒振荡器的腔长一致时,可实现自触发克尔透镜锁模.实验结果表明皮秒激光泵浦可以有效地触发钛宝石激光器的自动锁模,输出飞秒脉冲序列.     

宽带扩展腔产生15飞秒光脉冲实验研究

用３ｍｍ长的钛宝石短棒和改进的非对称Ｚ型折叠腔结构进行自锁模实验，以石英棱镜对作为腔内色散补偿元件，在５Ｗ氩离子激光泵浦下，实现低阈值泵浦自锁模运转。在腔内不加任何调制元件的情况下实现软光阑锁模，获得最短脉冲宽度为１５ｆｓ，光谱宽度为８０ｎｍ，输出平均功率４００ｍＷ。     

连续自锁模钛宝石激光器

锁模的钛宝石激光器是近红外波段比较可靠的飞秒(fs)超短脉冲光源.用氩离子激光器,实现了连续钛宝石激光器自锁模运转,输出脉宽92fs、谱宽8.5nm、平均功率大于200mW、调谐范围750～850nm.实验中Ti:Al_2O_3自锁模激光器结构如图1所示,谐振腔采用了“Z”形折送四镜象散补偿腔,M_1和M_2为曲率半径150mm高反镜,M_3为耦合输出镜,透过率5%,M_4为平面高反端腔镜,总腔长为1.6m左右,非对称排布M_2M_3相似文献   

Frequency doubled femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser with an assisted enhancement cavity

We report an enhancement cavity for femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser at the repetition rate of 170 MHz. An enhancement factor of 24 is obtained when the injecting pulses have an average power of 1 W and a pulse duration of 80 fs. By placing a BBO crystal at the focus of the cavity, we obtain a 392-m W intracavity doubled-frequency laser, corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 43%. The output power has a long-term stability with a root mean square(RMS) of 0.036%.     

Generation of 7-fs laser pulse directly from a compact Ti:sapphire laser with chirped mirrors

A compact femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser resonator consisting of three chirped mirrors and one output coupler was designed. By accurately balancing the intra- cavity dispersions between Ti:sapphire crystal, air and chirped mirrors, we directly generated the laser pulse shorter than 7 fs at the average power of 340 mW with 3.1 W pump. The repetition rate of the laser oscillator is 173 MHz at the centre wavelength of 791 nm, and the ultrabroaden spectrum covers from 600 nm to 1000 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this is the simplest laser resonator capable of generating sub-10 fs laser pulse.     

MW级峰值功率掺钛蓝宝石激光振荡器

在常规重复频率77 MHz掺钛蓝宝石飞秒激光器的基础上,通过腔内引入Herriott型多通望远镜系统增加总腔长及对腔内色散的深入分析和实验控制,实现了低重复频率、高脉冲能量飞秒激光振荡的稳定运行.在连续功率8.2 W的532 nm激光抽运下,得到了重复频率11 MHz、单脉冲能量达72.73 nJ、对应峰值功率MW量级的结果.相对80 MHz重复频率下6.25 nJ的单脉冲能量及150 kW的峰值功率,其输出能力提高了约一个量级. 关键词： 飞秒激光 掺钛蓝宝石激光器 低重复频率 MW     

输出能量4mJ的1kHz飞秒掺钛蓝宝石激光再生放大研究

针对高能量千赫兹重复频率飞秒激光的应用需求,设计了一套采用线性再生腔结构的高效率飞秒钛宝石激光啁啾脉冲放大系统.通过优化腔型设计,在重复频率为1 kHz、单脉冲能量为20 mJ的527 nm激光抽运下,将展宽后的800 nm啁啾脉冲激光的能量放大到5.8 mJ,对应斜效率达到30.7%.进一步通过色散补偿压缩脉冲宽度,获得了单脉冲能量为4 mJ、脉冲宽度为45.7 fs的输出,稳定性测量表明激光的能量抖动仅为0.18%(均方根值).     

Near-infrared cavity-dumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator

We demonstrate a high-energy near-infrared cavity-dumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on periodically poled lithium niobate. The laser generates 90 nJ pulses at a repetition rate of up to 1 MHz when synchronously pumped by 800 mW output from a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. The laser is broadly tunable from 1.0 to 1.5 microm in the signal branch, with a pulse duration of < 60 fs at 1.2 microm. High intracavity power is achieved by running the laser in the regime of positive group-velocity dispersion.     

Stretched-pulse mode-locking synchronously triggered by a femtosecond master laser at sub-megahertz repetition rate

A stretched-pulse mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser was passively synchronized to a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser at a low repetition rate of 240 kHz through large cross absorption modulation along additional 1-m-long erbium-doped fiber. The synchronous fiber laser with an ultra-long fiber cavity could produce not only nanosecond flat-top pulses with tunable pulse duration but also Gaussian-shape stretched pulses with its minimum pulse duration of ∼450 ps as confirmed by cross-correlation measurement. When operating in the stretched pulse regime, the sub-nanosecond fiber laser could be synchronously triggered by the master injection with the cavity-length mismatch tolerance up to ∼7.8 cm and timing jitter less than 400 fs, confirming that the stretched-pulse mode-locking of the ultra-long slave fiber laser could be robustly controlled by cross absorption modulation effects in the erbium-doped fiber with appropriate femtosecond master injection.     

Tunable femtosecond laser in the visible range with an intracavity frequency-doubled optical parametric oscillator

We demonstrated experimentally a synchronously pumped intracavity frequency-doubled femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) using a periodically-poled lithium niobate (PPLN) as the nonlinear material in combination with a lithium triborate (LBO) as the doubling crystal. A Kerr-lens-mode-locked (KLM) Ti:sapphire oscillator at the wavelength of 790 nm was used as the pump source, which was capable of generating pulses with a duration as short as 117 fs. A tunable femtosecond laser covering the 624-672 nm range was realized by conveniently adjusting the OPO cavity length. A maximum average output power of 260 mW in the visible range was obtained at the pump power of 2.2 W, with a typical pulse duration of 205 fs assuming a sech2 pulse profile.     

Generation of high-contrast and high-intensity laser pulses using an OPCPA preamplifier in a double CPA, Ti:sapphire laser system

We demonstrate a high-contrast, high-intensity double chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) Ti:sapphire laser system using an optical parametric chirped-pulse (OPCPA) pre- amplifier. By injecting cleaned microjoule seed pulses into the OPCPA, a temporal contrast greater than 10¹⁰ within picosecond times before the main femtosecond pulse is demonstrated with an output pulse energy of 1.7 J and a pulse duration of 30 fs, corresponding to a peak power of 60 TW at a 10 Hz repetition rate. This system uses a cryogenically-cooled Ti:sapphire final amplifier and generates focused peak intensities in excess of 10²⁰ W/cm².     

可用于超精细加工的高重复率、高光束质量飞秒再生放大脉冲的产生研究

通过飞秒放大增益饱和理论及飞秒脉冲展宽的理论计算与分析，指出在优化放大腔结构参数及改变抽运光能量情况下，可以在省略展宽器基础上实现中等能量的飞秒脉冲再生放大.以此为依据，采用低抽运能量和放大腔中钛宝石晶体离焦技术，成功地进行了无展宽器的高重复率飞秒钛宝石再生放大及压缩技术的实验研究，并获得了高光束质量的飞秒放大光脉冲，放大光脉冲能量大于100μJ，重复频率为1kHz，光谱带宽7.7nm，压缩后脉宽500fs. 关键词： 飞秒光脉冲 再生放大 光束质量 增益饱和