Reflection of high-intensity nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses by metals

Total reflectivity of silver and molybdenum samples irradiated by high-intensity nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses in air of atmospheric pressure is experimentally studied as a function of laser fluence in the range of 0.1–100 J/cm². The study shows that at laser fluences below the plasma formation threshold the total reflectivity of both silver and molybdenum remains virtually equal to the table room-temperature reflectivity values. The total reflectivity of these metals begins to decrease at a laser fluence of the plasma formation threshold. As the laser fluence increases above the plasma formation threshold, the reflectivity sharply drops to a low value and then remains unchanged with further increasing laser fluence. Calculation of the surface temperature at the plasma formation threshold fluence shows that the surface temperature value is substantially below the melting point that indicates an important role of the surface nanostructural defects in the plasma formation on a real sample due to their enhanced heating caused by both plasmonic absorption and plasmonic nanofocusing.     

VCSEL-pumped Nd:YAG laser with 95W average power and user-selectable nanosecond pulses

A 95 W Nd:YAG laser system pumped by a vertical cavity surface emitting laser(VCSEL) array is described.The laser contains an all-fiber-based seeder, an Nd:YAG regenerative amplifier, and a four-pass amplifier. The laser operates at 300 Hz with energies up to 317 m J. The beam has a top-hat intensity distribution. The temporal pulse shape is flat in time, and the pulse width can be adjusted in the range of 2–6 ns.     

Shorter and bandwidth-limited Nd: YAG laser pulses

Stable generation of 12 ps pulses in a passively mode-locked YAG system is reported using an intracavity etalon. It is also shown that self-phase modulation via the nonlinear index of YAG increases the frequency width of the laser emission; at low intracavity pulse energy < 200 μJ, chirp free pulses are observed.     

Vacuum-cored hollow waveguide for transmission of high-energy, nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses and its application to biological tissue ablation

A vacuum-cored hollow waveguide has been found to transmit 1064-nm, Q-switched Nd:YAG laser pulses. With this scheme, laser-induced air breakdown was completely suppressed, and the laser-induced damage threshold of the waveguide's inner coating was significantly increased. With a 1-m-long, 1-mm inner-diameter, cyclic olefin polymer-coated silver hollow waveguide, the maximum transmitted laser energy was as great as 158 mJ/pulse (20.1 J/cm(2)), at a repetition rate of 10 Hz in a 90 degrees -bent waveguide condition. The corresponding transmitted peak laser power was 17.6 MW. With the transmitted laser pulses, deep ablation of myocardium tissues was demonstrated in vitro.     

Spatial and temporal dynamics of light attenuation and transmission by plasmas induced in liquids by nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses

Summary The analysis of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plasmas induced in liquids by nanosecond laser pulses, based on a model of moving breakdown combined with a model of distributed shielding, is herein presented. Time- and space-resolved characteristics of energy absorption and transmission are evaluated with the aid of the two models, and compared to experimental findings available in the literature. In particular, energy absorbed per unit length and volume of the plasma column, time-resolved transmission, and energy input-output characteristics of the plasma, are considered. The dependence of the plasma attenuation of the focusing geometry is also discussed. The relevance of this analysis in relation to laser photodisruption is finally outlined.     

Glass processing using the fourth harmonic of nanosecond pulse Nd:YAG laser

Ablation processing of borosilicate glass was carried out using the fourth harmonic of the Q-switch Nd:YAG laser. The dependency of the ablation depth on irradiation pulse energy density and the dependency of the ablation depth on irradiation spot size were investigated. The average ablation depth increased with an increase in irradiation pulse energy density. When the irradiation pulse energy density was the same, the ablation depth of the focused beam with a large spot diameter was deeper than that of the focused beam with a small spot diameter. To shorten the processing time, an increase in the irradiation pulse energy density and use of a large spot size focused beam are effective. Using area scanning together with line scanning, a rectangular through hole (sub-mm size) without cracks or chips was formed in borosilicate glass of 140 μm in thickness. PACS 52.38.Mf; 42.70.Ce; 42.62.Cf     

Polarization resolved laser induced breakdown spectroscopy by single shot nanosecond pulsed Nd:YAG laser

Single shot nanosecond polarization resolved laser induced breakdown spectroscopy is introduced to spectrally analyse solid sample, e.g. copper. It is shown that continuum background emission of plasma generated by such laser pulse is much strongly polarized than discrete line radiation. By using the PRLIBS technique, continuum background emission is effectively suppressed. Furthermore, it is illustrated that polarization state of continuum emission in copper sample is mostly in vertical direction and, also, does not depend on laser beam polarization.     

Generation of short pulses for laser fusion in an actively mode-locked Nd:YAG laser

Active mode-locking and Q-switching of the Nd:YAG laser has produced short, transform-limited pulses from 60 ps to 1 ns, with more than 0.4 mJ energy per short pulse over most of this range. Pulse-to-pulse stability is better than ±3%.     

用腔倒空Nd：YAG激光器对fs超短脉冲的同步放大

实现了用腔倒空Nd:YGA激光器对fs超短脉冲放大器的同步泵浦。由碰撞锁模环形染料激光器产生的80fs脉冲经二级染料放大后,实现放大倍数6.2×10~4,输出超短脉冲峰值功率～2×10~7W。     

Trepanning of glass using the fourth harmonic of nanosecond pulse Nd:YAG laser

Using the fourth harmonic of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, the formation of a trepanned through hole of 1 mm in diameter in borosilicate glass of 140 μm thickness was achieved. The number of circular scans required to form a trepanned through hole, decreased rapidly with an increase in the number of the lines (circles) per circular scan. This result is interpreted as a decrease of beam propagation losses in the groove with an increase in the groove width. The number of irradiation pulses required to form a trepanned through hole increased rapidly with an increase in the number of lines (circles) per circular scan. The optimum condition for forming a trepanned through hole arises from the relationship between the irradiation pulse energy density, the number of irradiation pulses, and the number of lines (circles) per scan. PACS 52.38.Mf; 42.70.Ce; 42.62.Cf     

Nonlinear-optical transformation of nanosecond laser pulses and controlled supercontinuum generation in photonic-crystal fibers

Photonic-crystal fibers are shown to allow efficient spectral transformation of nanosecond laser pulses through parametric four-wave mixing and stimulated Raman scattering. Regimes providing highly efficient transformation of nanosecond laser pulses into white-light broadband radiation (supercontinuum) are identified. A strong parametric coupling between Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman sidebands around the wavelength of zero group-velocity dispersion is shown to increase the bandwidth and to improve the spectral quality of supercontinuum radiation.     

Optical limiting in fullerenes, colloidal metal solutions, and semiconductors in the field of pico-and nanosecond pulses of an Nd:YAG laser

Optical limiting of pico-and nanosecond pulsed radiation of a Nd:YAG laser (λ=1064 and 532 nm) is studied in solutions of fullerenes (C₆₀ and C₇₀), semiconductor crystals and films (GaAs, As₂S₃, As₂₀S₈₀, 2As₂S₃/As₂Se₃, and 3As₂S₃/As₂Se₃), and colloidal solutions of metals (Au, Ag, Pt, and Cu). The effect of the particle aggregation in silver solutions on the optical limiting is considered. Optical limiting mechanisms, specifically, reverse saturable absorption, two-photon absorption, and self-action effects, are discussed. Nonlinear absorption coefficients of the studied materials are measured.     

Experimental investigation and numerical simulation of the spatio-temporal dynamics of nanosecond pulses in Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers

This paper reports on an experimental investigation and numerical simulation of the spatio-temporal dynamics of the pulse formation in flashlamp-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers. The temporal evolution of the spatial intensity distribution is measured with a fast two-dimensional CCD camera. The measurements are performed for two lasers with different cavity configurations. A laser with an optically stable resonator and an internal mode aperture generated pulses with a spatial intensity distribution which is Gaussian at all times during the 10-ns-long pulse. During the pulse evolution the value of the beam-quality factor M²remains below 1.3. In a laser with a positive-branch unstable resonator the laser pulse also starts with a Gaussian intensity distribution, but becomes rapidly non-Gaussian. The corresponding M²values increase from about 1 at the beginning of the formation of the pulse to more than 12 in the tail of the pulse. The measurements are compared with the results of a numerical simulation which takes the laser amplification, the properties of the laser cavity, and the diffraction of the beam in the laser cavity into account. The spatio-temporal dynamics of the pulse formation predicted by the numerical model are in good agreement with the experimental results.PACS 42.60.Jf     

Subhertz-linewidth Nd:YAG laser

Light from a Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm is independently stabilized to two Fabry-Perot etalons situated on separate vibration-isolation platforms. A heterodyne beat measurement shows their relative frequency stability to be at the part-in-10(15) level at 5 s and the relative linewidth to be less than 1 Hz.     

Optical fiber transmission of multipleQ-switch Nd: YAG laser pulses with microsecond interpulse separations

Up to sixQ-switch pulses with interpulse separations of between 2 and 100 s are extracted during single flashlamp pulses of a Nd:YAG laser (1.06 m) by opening the Pockels cell in up to six stages. The interpulse separations and output energies are adjustable for the individual pulses of the 10 Hz repetitive laser bursts. Measurements of maximum fiber transmission and stimulated backscattering are reported for 1 mm diam fused-silica step-index fibers.     

Dual-polarization mode-locked Nd:YAG laser

A mode-locked solid-state laser containing a birefringent element is shown to emit synchronously two frequency combs associated to the two polarization eigenstates of the cavity. An analytical model predicts the polarization evolution of the pulse train, which is determined by the adjustable intracavity birefringence. Experiments realized with a Nd:YAG laser passively mode locked by a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror are in perfect agreement with the model. Locking between the two combs arises for particular values of their frequency difference, e.g., half the repetition rate, and the pulse train polarization sequence is then governed by the relative overall phase offset of the two combs.     

Dynamics of blueshifted floating pulses in gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

Frequency blueshifting was recently observed in light pulses propagating on gas-filled hollow-core photonic crystal fibers where a plasma has been produced due to photoionization of the gas. One of the propagation models that is adequate to describe the actual experimental observations is here investigated. It is a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an extra term, to which we applied a self-similar change of variables and found its accelerating solitons. As in other NLS-related models possessing accelerating solitons, there exist asymmetrical pulses that decay as they propagate in some parameter region that was here well defined.     

高功率四波长Nd:YAG激光实验

四波长Nd：YAG激光实验是利用非线性晶体BBO，通过倍频、混频和二次倍频等激光变频技术，分别获取了4个波段相干辐射光，本文介绍了各波长相干辐射光的获取方法及其时空特性的测量。     

Nd：YAG激光器中的自锁模

本文报道在Nd:YAG激光器中首次获得的自锁模脉冲序列.自锁模是由于Nd:YAG棒中的自相位调制引起的.在主被动对撞锁模运转情况下,自锁模对脉冲波形有较大的影响.