LD侧面抽运Nd：YAG陶瓷激光器运转条件下归一化热参数优化理论及实验研究

考虑激光提取对介质内非辐射跃迁的抑制作用，建立和完善LD侧面抽运Nd：YAG陶瓷激光器运转条件下增益介质的发热模型，通过实验测量激光器斜率效率和增益介质吸收的抽运功率来推导出归一化热参数.通过归一化热参数，讨论了影响Nd：YAG陶瓷介质内热沉积的主要因素，研究结果表明：增益介质内热沉积对激光提取效率、交叠效率以及掺杂浓度的变化比较敏感.为有效减少热沉积，对所研究的掺杂原子百分比浓度为1.0%的Nd：YAG陶瓷多模激光器的输出耦合镜进行优化选择，激光提取效率提高到0.905，归一化热参数降低到0.474.研究结果可为进一步研究陶瓷激光器中热效应以及冷却方案设计等提供一定参考. 关键词： 热沉积 归一化热参数 Nd：YAG陶瓷

Experimental and theoretical study on the optimization of the normalized heating parameter in the operating LD side-pumped Nd:YAG ceramic lasers

The suppressing effect of laser extraction on the non-radiation transition process is taken into account when the heat model of gain media is developed. Based on the developed heat model, the heat generation in the operating LD side-pumped Nd:YAG ceramic lasers is quantified through using the normalized heating parameter, which can be deduced from the experimental results of the slope efficiency and the absorbed pumping power of the gain media. The main factors which influence on the heat generation are investigated by studying the normalized heating parameter, and the results show that the changes of the laser extraction efficiency, the beam overlap efficiency and the Nd³⁺ concentration will result in obvious variations of the normalized heating parameter. In this work, the laser extraction efficiency increases to 0.905 by the optimization of the transmission of the output coupling, and the normalized heating parameter decrease to 0.474, correspondingly.