激光二极管抽运固体激光器场分布的热不稳定性研究

通过建立激光介质非热平衡状态的振荡散热模型，分析了激光二极管抽运固体激光器中，热透镜的不稳定性.研究表明，热透镜的这种热不稳定性是造成激光场不稳定的重要因素.会造成高斯半径的不稳定波动，会使激光光束的指向角波动，会造成激光光斑的非对称畸变，这种畸变也处于波动之中.通过对端面抽运条件下，热耗为1W的Nd:YAG激光介质的理论和实验研究，确定了这种原因下光场不稳定度的数量级.关键词：激光二极管固体激光器热透镜

Heat-induced undulation in the distribution of diode-pumped solid-state laser

A theoretical model has been adopted to analysis the unsteady thermal effects in a laser medium. It is based on the fact that the internal dissipation power is always unequal to the heat removed from the surface. According to this, the case in a laser diode pumped solid-state laser has been studied. The result obtained shows that the fluctuations in the laser beam strongly depend on those of the temperature in the heat sink. It was also shown that the dissymmetric temperature distribution of the heat sink distorts the shape of the laser beam. A set of experiments has been carefully designed to proved these conclusions.