Design and performance of a video-based laser beam automatic alignment system

A laser alignment system is applied to a high power laser facility for inertial confinement fusion. A design of the automated, close-loop laser beam alignment system is described. Its function is to sense beam alignment errors in a laser beam transport system and automatically steer mirrors preceding the sensor location as required to maintain beam alignment. The laser beam is sampled by a sensor package, which uses video cameras to sense pointing and centering errors. The camera outputs are fed to a personal computer, which includes video digitizers and uses image storage and software to sense the centroid of the image. Signals are sent through the computer to a stepper motor controller, which drives stepper motors on mirror mounts preceding the beam sampling location to return the beam alignment to the prescribed condition. Its optical principles and key techniques are given. The pointing and centering sensitivities of the beam alignment sensor package are analyzed. The system has been verified on the     

Core Size Scaling of Helical-Core Optical Fibres

The mode-area scaling properties of helical-core optical fibres are numerically studied and the limit of core size for achievable single-mode operation is explored. By appropriate design, helical-core fibres can operate in a single mode with possible scaling up to 300μm in core diameter with numerical aperture 0.1.     

钕玻璃片状激光放大器自发辐射放大特性的研究

编制了一套用蒙特卡罗方法计算钕玻璃片状放大器内自发辐射放大(ASE)的模拟计算程序,考虑了光线在两大表面不同入射角对反射率的影响.计算了包边吸收的ASE能量沿周边的分布,以便于对放大器热畸变特性的研究;以及片的横向尺寸对储能密度的影响. 关键词：     

自相位调制及群速色散对超短脉冲在准周期LiNbO3 Fibonacci超晶格中传输的影响

从ＬｉＮｂＯ３Ｆｉｂｏｎａｃｃｉ超晶格的结构特点出发,数值模拟了超短脉冲在ＬｉＮｂＯ３Ｆｉｂｏｎａｃｉ超晶格内传输过程中,自相位调制及高阶群速色散效应对脉冲形状和频谱的影响．结果表明,超短脉冲在Ｆｉｂｏｎａｃｉ超晶格中传输时,由于自相位调制（ＳＰＭ）与群速色散（ＧＶＤ）耦合效应的影响,脉冲形状畸变和频谱展宽均是不对称的,随着晶格长度的增加,脉冲将会发生分裂,以至成为两个独立的子脉冲,同时也会出现脉冲频谱上的分裂     

高功率激光放大器脉冲的整形设计

 针对惯性约束聚变实验对激光驱动器脉冲波形的要求,将优化控制模型理论运用于计算激光放大器输入脉冲的预补偿波形,得到了与实验基本一致的结果。同时给出了我国新一代高功率激光器“神光 Ⅲ”装置主放大器级输入脉冲波形的设计要求。     

Watt-level Pr~(3+):YLF deep red laser pumped by a fiber-coupled blue LD module or a single-emitter blue LD

A power-scaled laser operation of Pr:YLi F4(YLF)crystal at 720.9 nm pumped by a 443.6 nm laser diode(LD)module was demonstrated.The 20 W module was used to pump the Pr:YLF crystal,and a maximum output power of 3.03 W with slope efficiency of 30.04%was obtained.In addition,a 5 W blue LD was also used to pump the Pr:YLF laser,and a maximum output power of 0.72 W was obtained at room temperature.The output power was limited by the wavelength mismatch between the single-emitter LD and the absorption peak of the crystal.     

Femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier for Petawatt Nd：Glass Lasers

We study a femtosecond Ti：sapphire laser pumped optical parametric amplifier （OPA） at 1053nm. The OPA Generates stable signal pulses with duration smaller than l OOfs, wavelength drift smaller than 0.5 nm, and pulseto-pulse fluctuation of about ±4%, by employinG an external seeder. In a terawatt laser pumped large-aperture LiNbOa OPA, pulse energy at signal has been scaled up to 4mJ. This m J-class femtosecond OPA at 1053nm presents a feasible alternative to optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification, and is ready to be applied to petawatt lasers.     

“神光－Ⅱ”实验装置主放大器中寄生振荡的研究

报道了寄生振荡对“神光－Ⅱ”实验装置主放大器增益的影响，并给出理论计算和实验结果     

多程放大腔镜准直研究

 针对高功率激光装置对多程放大器腔镜准直的要求,利用小孔的像传递和光路自动准直的原理,设计出一套创新的腔镜准直调整方法,并且在SG-Ⅲ原型装置4程放大模拟实验平台上进行了实验验证。实验结果表明：自动准直系统能够在15min之内顺利完成主放大级系统的光路调整,光束近场调整精度值小于近场光斑直径的0.5%,光束远场调整精度小于0.3"。     

8路神光Ⅱ装置在基频和三倍频条件下工作研究进展

 简要描述在神光Ⅱ装置上进行的部分物理实验，为神光Ⅱ激光装置提供光学性能指标。神光Ⅱ激光装置已经能在三倍频、外转换效率高于60%的条件下常规输出三倍频能量。穿孔实验表明，蓝光(3w₀)的光束质量，特别是远场旁瓣分布质量，甚至于要好于红光(1w₀光)。用100ps脉冲宽度的红光输出打爆推内爆的氘氚球靶，获得单发最高中子产额4×10⁹个。基频线聚焦打靶，获得类Ni银X光激光饱和输出，并成功应用于激光等离子体密度测量，观测到莫尔条纹移动。