Ever since the laser's invention, there has been great interest in increasing beam output power without detriment to its coherence. Despite great advances having been obtained through the use of a diverse range of approaches, steady‐state beam powers above ten kilowatts remain a significant challenge for solid‐state lasers due to the heightened impact of detrimental nonlinear effects such as thermal lensing. Multiplexing several lasers using beam combination represents a method for surpassing the power barriers of single lasers. Here we propose and demonstrate a novel approach to beam combination and power scaling based on Raman conversion in diamond. Power from multiple non‐collinear pump beams is efficiently transferred onto a single Stokes beam in a single‐pass amplifier. Using three mutually‐independent nanosecond pulsed beams from a free‐running‐linewidth 1064 nm laser, 69% of the total peak pump power of 6.7 kW was transferred onto a TEM00 Stokes seed pulse at 1240 nm in a 9.5 mm long diamond crystal. Compared to other beam combination techniques, diamond beam combination has advantages of relaxed constraints on pump beam mutual coherence, while enabling narrowband output. Thermal considerations for extending from low duty‐cycle to continuous wave operation and higher power levels are discussed.
We introduce a high-sensitivity broadband stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) setup featuring wide spectral coverage (up to 500 cm−1) and high-frequency resolution (≈20 cm−1). The system combines a narrowband Stokes pulse, obtained by spectral filtering an Yb laser, with a broadband pump pulse generated by a home-built optical parametric oscillator. A single-channel lock-in amplifier connected to a single-pixel photodiode measures the stimulated Raman loss signal, whose spectrum is scanned rapidly using a galvanometric mirror after the sample. We use the in-line balanced detection approach to suppress laser fluctuations and achieve close to shot-noise-limited sensitivity. The setup is capable of measuring accurately the SRS spectra of several solvents and of obtaining hyperspectral data cubes consisting in the broadband SRS microscopy images of polymer beads test samples as well as of the distribution of different biological substances within plant cell walls. 相似文献
Spontaneous Raman (SR) microscopy allows label‐free chemically specific imaging based on the vibrational response of molecules; however, due to the low Raman scattering cross section, it is intrinsically slow. Coherent Raman scattering (CRS) techniques, by coherently exciting vibrational oscillators in the focal volume, increase signal levels by several orders of magnitude under appropriate conditions. In its single‐frequency version, CRS microscopy has reached very high imaging speeds, up to the video rate; however, it provides information which is not sufficient to distinguish spectrally overlapped chemical species within complex heterogeneous systems, such as cells and tissues. Broadband CRS combines the acquisition speed of CRS with the information content of SR, but it is technically very demanding. In this Review, the current state of the art in broadband CRS microscopy, both in the coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) versions are reviewed. Different technical solutions for broadband CARS and SRS, working both in the frequency and in the time domains, are compared and their merits and drawbacks assessed. 相似文献
A novel and simple two-frequency Brillouin fiber laser is presented. It is based on a fiber Fabry-Perot cavity with fiber Bragg gratings as reflectors. The model of stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber grating-based Fabry-Perot resonator is investigated. The laser allows conversion efficiency of close to 100% and suppresses the higher-order Stokes waves. The theoretical prediction is presented and the experimental demonstration is realized. 相似文献
After the laser was invented in 1960, a phase conjugation mirror has been respected to be the most fantastic one for the laser
resonator composition because it can compensate any distortions of the laser beams occurred by the many inhomogenuities of
the laser media and optical components. Among the many phase conjugation configurations, the stimulated Brillouin scattering
phase conjugation mirror is the most simple one and many researchers have tried to utilize it to develop high power/energy
laser systems. For realizing a high energy/power laser system the thermal problem is the most difficult to solve, and some
researchers suggested a beam combination technique to reduce the thermal load of the big laser media to many small sized ones.
To accomplish the beam combination using stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugation mirrors (SBS-PCMs), it is necessary
to lock/control the phases of the SBS-PCMs. And some researchers have developed several ways for it, but they can lock the
phases of a limited number of beams overlapped at the foci less than 5, or lock the phases by back-seeding technique but it
loses the phase conjugation characteristics. For realization of the laser fusion driver, it is necessary to combine more than
10 or 100 beams. And the authors have developed recently a new phase controlling/locking technique which is isolated and independent
totally from other beams and it can be applied to an unlimited number of beams in principle. 相似文献
