不同烧蚀条件下飞秒激光脉冲诱导ZnO纳米结构研究

烧蚀条件对飞秒激光脉冲诱导氧化锌纳米结构有重要影响.研究了800 nm,150 fs,250 kHz的飞秒激光脉冲分别在空气中,去离子水中以及无水乙醇中垂直聚焦于氧化锌晶体表面,诱导形成不同形态的纳米结构.实验结果表明,在空气中利用飞秒激光脉冲辐照样品表面,形成了周期为180 nm的纳米线;在去离子水中辐照诱导形成了由氧化锌纳米线聚集而成的"纳米球";在无水乙醇中形成出现分叉结构的纳米线.拉曼光谱分析辐照前后晶体晶相结果表明,形成的纳米结构相对于辐照前特征峰437 cm-1强度有所下降,在570 cm-1处的峰值则显著增强.分析了在各种烧蚀条件下诱导形成纳米结构的演化过程以及物理机理.     

Conical Emission Patterns by Femtosecond Pulses with Different Spectral Bandwidths

Different conical emission （CE） patterns are obtained experimentally at various incident powers and beam sizes of pump laser pulses with pulse durations of 7fs, 44fs and 100fs. The results show that it is the incident power but not the incident power density that determines a certain CE pattern. In addition, the critical powers for similar CE patterns are nearly the same for the laser pulses with the same spectral bandwidth. Furthermore, as far as a certain CE pattern is concerned, the wider the spectral bandwidth of pump laser pulse is, the higher the critical power is. This will hopefully provide new insights for the generation of CE pattern in optical medium.     

用于大口径钛宝石放大器的四路钕玻璃抽运源

研制了一套能量输出稳定、光斑分布均匀、时域近方波形的四路钕玻璃抽运源系统。系统能够输出4×180J的基频能量(波长为1053nm),4×80J的倍频能量(波长为526.5nm)。主要结构包括四部分:前端种子源、再生放大器、钕玻璃棒放链和KDP倍频晶体。利用偏振片实现了垂直偏振的两路基频光合束,经过第二类相位匹配KDP晶体倍频,获得了共线且同偏振的526.5nm倍频光,实现了用于150mm口径钛宝石放大器的结构紧凑的双脉冲抽运源。     

超连续谱干涉方法测量古依相移

利用两束超连续光干涉得到的信号,测量了透镜焦点附近飞秒激光脉冲的古依(Gouy)相移。根据得到的光谱干涉信号,利用傅里叶变换得到相对相位值。激光光束在聚焦透镜后的束腰半径可以由成像方法测得。根据测量得到的激光光束束腰半径,用非线性拟合的方法得到了古依相移曲线,拟合曲线与实验结果符合得非常好。给出了古依相位在焦点前后1 mm区域内的移动量。     

100-GeV large scale laser plasma electron acceleration by a multi-PW laser

We present three possible design options of laser plasma acceleration (LPA) for reaching a 100-GeV level energy by means of a multi-petawatt laser such as the 3.5-kJ, 500-fs PETawatt Aquitane Laser (PETAL) at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). Based on scaling of laser wakefield acceleration in the quasi-linear regime with the normalized vector potential a0 =1.4(1.6), acceleration to 100 (130) GeV requires a 30-m-long plasma waveguide operated at the plasma density n e ≈ 7×10 15 cm-3 with a channel depth Δn/ne = 20%, while a nonlinear laser wakefield accelerator in the bubble regime with a0≥2 can reach 100 GeV approximately in a36/a0-m-long plasma through self-guiding. The third option is a hybrid concept that employs a ponderomotive channel created by a long leading pulse for guiding a short trailing driving laser pulse. The detail parameters for three options are evaluated, optimizing the operating plasma density at which a given energy gain is obtained over the dephasing length and the matched conditions for propagation of relativistic laser pulses in plasma channels, including the self-guiding. For the production of high-quality beams with 1%-level energy spread and a 1π-mm-mradlevel transverse normalized emittance at 100-MeV energy, a simple scheme based on the ionization-induced injection mechanism may be conceived. We investigate electron beam dynamics and effects of synchrotron radiation due to betatron motion by solving the beam dynamics equations on energy and beam radius numerically. For the bubble regime case with a0=4, radiative energy loss becomes 10% at the maximum energy of 90 GeV.     

Flat-top phase-matched high-order harmonics in gas-filled cell

Phase-matched high-order harmonic generation in Ar gas-filled cell is investigated experimentally. We obtain phase-matched 27th order harmonic driven by a commercially available solid-state femtosecond laser system at 0.55 mJ/pulse energy level and 1-kHz repetition rate. Moreover, we find that the spatial distribution of intensity of high-order harmonics is flat-top profile other than a Gaussian one under the condition of optimized conversion efficiency in the static gas cell.     

周期性极化铌酸锂晶体中半非共线型宽带光学参变放大理论研究

基于周期性极化铌酸锂晶体(PPLN)的准相位匹配光参变放大过程,通过倾斜周期极化铌酸锂晶体中极化域(极化光栅)一定角度,实现了介于共线匹配方式和非共线匹配方式之间的一种半非共线型准相位匹配方式,并以该匹配方式下的各光矢量几何关系得出相位匹配曲线,找到在特定抽运光和信号光波长下能获得宽带增益放大的周期极化长度。并研究其极化倾斜角度与温度特性。模拟计算表明,在合适的角度与温度条件下,该方式可以532 nm抽运光抽运的信号光在800 nm和1064 nm处均获得宽带光参变放大。     

Study on optical nonlinearities of ZnO-Nb2O5-TeO2 glass with time-resolved four-wave mixing technique

We investigated nonlinear optical properties of ZnO-Nb2O5-TeO2 glass excited by a femtosecond laser with time-resolved four-wave mixing (FWM) technique. The unusual FWM signals were observed in samples with ZnO dopant. The mechanism for the optical nonlinearities was discussed.     

Nonlinear Optics properties of Er2O3- doped 75Nb2O5-20TeO2-5ZnO glasses

We have performed time-resolved degenerate four-wave mixing(DFWM)experiments in 75Nb2O5-20TeO2-5ZnO glasses doped by Er2O3 at different excitation intensities and lattice temperatures.DFWM signalexhibits three peaks at high excitation intensities,where a main peak appears at zero time delay and tworather weak side peaks locate symmetrically at the negative and positive time delay,respectively.Themain peak is attributed to local-field effect and two side peaks are attributed to Coulomb interaction(CI).     

4f结构脉冲整形器失调对光场空间分布的影响

利用零色散脉冲整形装置的模型，从理论上详细讨论了4f结构脉冲整形装置中第一光栅和第一凸透镜之间距离失调、两凸透镜之间距离失调以及第二凸透镜与第二光栅之间距离失调对输出脉冲空间特性的影响。