Generation of Ultrashort Light Bullets in Dispersive Kerr Media Using the Fourth—Order Dispersion—Dependent Spatiotemporal Instability

A new method for generation of a train of ultrashort pulses or a sequence of ultrashort light bullets is proposed. This method is based on the fourth-order dispersion-dependent spatiotemporal instability in dispersive Kerr media. The repetition-rate of the generated bullets can be made quite large by increasing the corresponding spatial modulation frequency locating in the new instability region resulted from fourth-order dispersion.     

类氖锗X光激光双程放大实验研究

本文在神光装置上,进行了类氖锗X光激光双程放大实验研究.实验中使用了硅/钼多层膜X光平面反射镜.用平场光栅谱仪测量了X光激光的时间积分和时间分辨信号.实验证实了X光激光的双程放大.时间积分结果表明,双程放大为单程放大信号的5倍多;时间分辨结果表明,对多层镜的作用时间作修正后,双程放大信号的增强倍数还要大.在本实验条件下,多层镜的寿命约为400—700ps.     

激光核聚变与高功率激光:历史与进展

回顾激光聚变近50年来的发展历程,评述聚变物理与高功率激光驱动器的研究进展,展望聚变能源未来前景.     

宽频带激光自由空间传输的调制特性研究

基于惠更斯-菲涅耳衍射积分公式,研究了宽带光束在菲涅耳衍射区的自由空间传输特性,得到宽带光束传输的调制深度与光束带宽Δλ及菲涅耳数F的变化关系。结果表明:一定的带宽对光束的均匀性有适当的改善;当光束的带宽Δλ<2λ0/F时,带宽越大,光束越均匀;当带宽满足条件Δλ=2λ0/F时,菲涅耳衍射完全消失;在一定的菲涅耳数范围内,宽带光束的调制深度随菲涅耳数振荡变化,振荡曲线的主极大值和次极大值分别出现在菲涅耳数为奇数和偶数处,而极小值则出现在菲涅耳数F=2k±1/3(k=1,2,3,…)处,在极小值处光束的均匀性最好。     

A Phase-Controlled Optical Parametric Amplifier Pumped by Two Phase-Distorted Laser Beams

We theoretically study the phase characteristic of optical parametric amplification （OPA） or chirped pulse OPA （OPCPA） pumped by two phase-distorted laser beams. In the two-beam-pumped optical parametric amplification （TBOPA）, due to spatial walk-off, both of the pump phase distortions will be partly transferred to signal in a single crystal so as to degrade the signal beam-quality, which will be more serious in high-energy OPCPA. An OPA configuration with a walkoff-compensated crystal pair is demonstrated for reducing the signal phase distortion experienced in the first stage and ensuring the signal phase independent of two pump phase distortions through the second crystal, hence maintaining the signal beam-quality. Such a TBOPA is similar to the conventional quantum laser amplifier by means of eliminating its sensitivity to the phase and number of the pump beams.     

高功率固体激光装置的发展与工程科学问题

在激光聚变需求牵引下,高功率固体激光技术走过了30多年的发展历程。在世界范围内,美、日、法、中、英、俄等国先后建造了20多台大型装置,输出能量初期仅百焦耳级,后来增大到数万焦耳,固体激光技术得到长足发展。近几年来,几个大国都在建造巨型激光装置,如美国和法国正分别建造国家点火装置NIF和兆焦耳激光器LMJ,我国在研制神光-Ⅲ激光装置,俄国也在计划建造Iskra-6激光装置。这一代激光装置的研制不但在科学技术上提出了许多新需求,从而把激光科学技术发展推向新的历史阶段,而且就其规模、投入、周期和风险而言,是前所未有的大光学科学工程。从工程科学的角度去研究如何才能建造出性能优良和效费比高的巨型激光装置是需要回答的具有挑战性的新课题。     

X(2)级联过程产生能量无损耗的高量值五阶非线性相移

针对二阶非线性X(2)级联产生等效五阶非线性的过程, 研究发现基频光感应到的级联五阶非线性相移会随着其在整个过程中所遭受到的能量损耗的加剧而增大. 与材料固有非线性所产生的多光子吸收效应有着本质的区别, 该级联非线性过程中所形成的基频光能量损耗是可控的. 在数值模拟计算的基础上, 提出了在级联五阶非线性过程之后引入倍频光与基频光相互作用的差频过程, 最终实现了基频光在感应到大的级联五阶非线性相移的同时无能量损耗效应.     

Widely tunable dual-pump parametric amplifiers with photonic crystal fibres

This paper theoretically studies the double-pumped fibre-optical parametric amplifiers （FOPAs） in photonic crystal fibres. Two distinct working regimes of FOPAs are researched, which depend on the dispersion at the central wavelength of the two pumps. Extremely broad tuning range can be obtained when the central pump wavelength is in the normal dispersion regime and is insensitive to the wavelength separation between the two pumps, while the tuning range is narrow in the anomalous dispersion regime and can be significantly enhanced by increasing the wavelength separation. Impacts of higher-order dispersions and temporal walk-off on the gain spectra are also discussed.     

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LiNbO₃ Fibonacci超晶格的结构特点出发,数值模拟了超短脉冲在LiNbO₃ Fibonacci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Fibonacci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. 关键词：     

Generation of the cascaded fifth-order nonlinear phase shifts with femtosecond pulse

Due to group velocity mismatch, the generation of the cascaded fifth-order nonlinear phase shifts with femtosecond pulse will inevitably cause the severe pulse distortion. By theoretical study and numerical simulations, we show that undistorted femtosecond pulse which is impressed the cascaded fifth-order nonlinear phase shifts can be obtained at large values of the phase mismatching △κL.