色心激光器研究进展

自1975年贝尔实验室发表了关于宽调谐色心激光器的文章至今,色心激光器作为近红外波段宽调谐范围的可调谐激光器在科学研究中的重要性日益增长,其性能和品种也得到不断的提高和扩大。色心的基本特征是有均匀加宽的发射带,其振子强度大,量子效率高。这就决定了色心激光振荡有宽的调谐范围、高的输出功率和低的阈值泵浦功率。色心激光器还有窄线宽及易于单模运转的特点。目前色心激光器的调谐范围已可达0.6～3.99μm。另外利用CaO中的F~ 心     

可调谐单频掺镱光纤DBR激光器

对分布布拉格反射(DBR)的透射特性进行了分析,制作了一个单频窄线宽掺镱光纤DBR激光器.在977 nm半导体激光器泵浦下,在1052.5 nm波长处输出功率可达4 mW,线宽小于8 MHz(受测量仪器分辨率限制).采用弧形梁调谐光纤光栅,实现了DBR光纤激光器在单纵模工作状态下的连续调谐,调谐范围可达20.4 nm(1036.1～1056.5 nm),并研究了调谐对激光器的泵浦阈值和斜率效率的影响.     

高效率连续波单频环形钛宝石激光器

报道了氩离子激光泵浦的高教率连续波单频环形钛宝石激光器的设计和运转特性。5.0 W泵浦获得了大于0.5 W的稳定单频输出.单频转换效率为10%.讨论了考虑热效应后最佳泵浦条件及光学选频器件,光学单向器,双折射滤光片等特性.测量了激光输出的调谐范围,线宽及功率稳定性等.     

窄线宽低噪声可调谐非平面环形激光器

针对空间相干光通信和探测等应用,对非平面环形激光器的线宽、噪声和调谐特性进行了系统的实验研究。单频输出功率达到752mW,光光效率42%,斜率效率54%。采用延时自外差拍频法测试了激光线宽,其随泵浦功率的增加而增大,输出功率小于200 mW 时,线宽小于1 kHz,在最高输出功率下线宽为2.3 kHz。激光强度噪声主要由弛豫振荡引起,相对强度噪声（RIN）随着泵浦功率的提高而降低。在1.78W 泵浦功率下,RIN 达到-93 dB/Hz。采用温度和压电两种方式进行了激光调谐。温度调谐范围达到62 GHz。压电调谐范围达到130MHz,响应带宽100 kHz。     

准连续可调谐钛宝石激光器

报道了一种结构新颖紧凑．稳定可靠，具有单模输出、窄线宽、波长覆盖范围宽、连续可调谐、泵浦效率高等特点的钛宝石激光器。     

固体激光进入一个蓬勃发展的时期赴美考察印象

本文报道了作者1989年5月对美国的一次考察的印象。报道从高平均功率、半导体激光器泵浦、可调谐、窄线宽等固体激光器和激光材料加工等应用方面评述了固体激光技术近年来的迅速发展。     

掺铥光纤激光器波长可调谐输出特性

利用1 550 nm光纤激光器搭建了一个同带泵浦环形腔掺铥光纤激光器,并对其光谱输出特性进行了研究。在1 550 nm激光泵浦下,1.6 m掺铥光纤自发辐射谱覆盖1 800~1 900 nm范围,3 dB带宽大于60 nm;通过在腔内插入隔离器,获得了线宽小于0.2 nm的激光输出,中心波长在1900 nm附近;进一步在腔内加入FP腔,获得了可调谐的窄线宽输出,光谱调谐范围达60 nm,覆盖从1 840~1 900 nm的光谱范围,激光线宽仅为0.07 nm。另外,在腔内使用通信波段用FP腔,同样获得了较宽调谐范围的窄线宽输出。输出光谱分为1 820~1 850 nm和1 865~1 915 nm两个区域,调谐范围共达80 nm。结合使用2 000 nm FP腔的可调谐光谱范围,该激光器在1 820~1 915 nm的范围都可以获得激光输出,与掺铥光线的自发辐射谱基本相符。     

超窄线宽连续可调谐钛蓝宝石环行腔激光器

美国光谱物理公司在CLEO2004上展出了新开发的连续可调谐钛蓝宝石环行腔激光器。该激光器具有如下优点:线宽可窄到10skHz;低噪声的连续输出;抗微光学系统扰动;高精度的波长可调谐;快速更换光学镜片组;单频紫外355～500nm输出。钛蓝宝石激光器由光谱物理公司的MillenniaProR 532nm连续绿光激光器泵浦,在腔外使用谐振增强型外腔式倍频器WavetrainR 实现倍频输出。Wavetrain是目前效率最高的连续单频激光器的谐振增强型外腔式倍频器,采用了专利的三角腔设计,其倍频效率是通常使用的Bow-tie折叠倍频腔效率的1.5倍以上。连续可调谐钛蓝宝石…     

光子通信可调谐半导体激光器

本文详细地讨论了可调谐半导体激光器的种类、工作原理及其特性。同时也阐述了快速、单频、窄线宽以及频率啁啾。     

反向光纤耦合器反向隔离特性研究

高功率窄线宽光纤激光器具有线宽非常窄,相干长度非常长等独特激光特性,目前广泛应用于材料加工,生物医疗等各个领域.反向光纤耦合器是高功率窄线宽光纤激光器核心光纤器件,反向光纤耦合器普遍采用端面泵浦耦合技术制备,其在高功率窄线宽光纤激光器实际应用过程中,对反向光纤耦合器反向隔离度特性的研究可以提高对泵浦光源的保护作用.主要...     

High-power and tunable operation of erbium-ytterbium Co-doped cladding-pumped fiber lasers

We describe erbium-ytterbium co-doped fiber lasers in different free-running and tunable configurations. The lasers were cladding-pumped by high-power multimode diode sources. We compare pumping at 915 and 980 nm. With a free-running laser, we obtained slope efficiencies of up to 50% with 915-nm pumping and 38% with 980-nm pumping, with respect to absorbed pump power. We reached a double-ended output power of 16.8 W from the free-running laser. Thanks to a high rare-earth concentration and a small inner cladding area (possible with the high-brightness pump sources we used), the operating pump absorption of the fiber reached 8 dB/m. With such high absorption, short fibers with high nonlinear thresholds are possible even with cladding pumping. The tunable fiber laser had a tuning range from 1533 to 1600 nm and emitted 6.7 W of output power at 1550nm in a high-brightness, single-polarization, narrow linewidth beam.     

Wide tunable double ring resonator coupled lasers

A double ring resonator coupled laser (DR-RCL) is proposed and analyzed in this letter. Benefiting from the uniform peak transmission, narrow bandwidth and other superior characteristics of traveling wave supported high-Q resonators, DR-RCLs offers many promising advantages over the conventional tunable lasers, including ultra wide wavelength tuning range, high side mode suppression ratio, uniform threshold and efficiency, narrow linewidth, low frequency chirp, and simple fabrication. A DR-RCL with a moderate optical loss ~10 dB/cm in the ring resonators can achieve a wavelength tuning enhancement of ~50. With such a large tuning leverage, DR-RCLs could utilize the electrooptic effects to achieve ultrafast tuning speed with a wide tuning range covering the material gain bandwidth     

Performance characteristics of a narrow-linewidth distributed-Bragg reflector laser for optical remote sensing systems

The performance of a novel ridge-waveguide, distributed-Bragg-reflector laser was tested for spectroscopic remote sensing applications. The laser exhibits a narrow linewidth, excellent side-mode suppression, and flexible, highly repeatable wavelength tuning. These characteristics are significant improvements over current Fabry-Perot lasers, and indicate that distributed-Bragg-reflector lasers are promising candidates for implementing advanced semiconductor-based optical remote sensing systems.     

Correlation of noise characteristics and line shape with linewidthrebroadening of MQW DFB lasers

The line shape and noise characteristics of narrow linewidth MQW DFB lasers were measured in the range near the linewidth rebroadening. Excellent correlation between the linewidth rebroadening and line shape change was observed. The linewidth rebroadening is also related to the intensity and frequency noise characteristics     

High-stability 1.5 μm external-cavity semiconductor lasers forphase-lock applications

Applications using phase-locked semiconductor lasers, such as homodyne detection, require lasers with narrow linewidth and high-frequency stability. The design and operating characteristics of two 1.5 μm external-cavity semiconductor lasers built for such applications are described. The measured beat linewidth is 4 kHz, and the spectral density of relative frequency noise deviates significantly from the intrinsic white spectrum only at frequencies below 4 kHz. It is estimated that this frequency jitter will induce approximately 1.1° RMS phase error in a second-order homodyne optical phase-lock loop that is optimized for the present beat linewidth     

DBR单纵模光纤激光器波长温度调谐

报道了采用DBR方式,利用8 mm的高浓度掺Yb3+单模光纤,实现了波长为1 064 nm的单纵模调谐激光稳定输出的实验结果。该DBR谐振腔有效腔长为16 mm,输出最大功率为7.4 mW,通过半导体制冷器温控改变谐振腔的温度,实现了0.824 nm的单纵模无跳模调谐。采用光纤外差法,并利用低损耗环形器和光纤反射镜倍增延迟线长度提升测量精度的方式,测量得到激光最大线宽为4.4 kHz。单纵模激光的弛豫震荡峰位于900 kHz处,其相对强度噪声为-110 dB/Hz,当频率大于1.5 MHz时相对强度噪声为-145 dB/Hz。     

激光雷达用高性能光纤激光器

系统研究了窄线宽低噪声单频连续光纤激光器、高能量纳秒长脉冲单频光纤激光器以及高峰值功率纳秒短脉冲光纤激光器三类高性能光纤激光器:实现了工作于1、1.5及2 m波段的单频连续光纤激光器,典型光谱线宽小于3 kHz,强度噪声接近于散粒噪声极限;实现了高能量单频光纤激光器,脉冲能量超过200 J,重复频率20 kHz,脉冲宽度100~500 ns,激光波长位于1.5 m波段;实现了高峰值功率纳秒短脉冲光纤激光器,峰值功率超过700 kW,重复频率10 kHz,脉冲宽度3 ns;同时还实现了高重频高峰值功率纳秒短脉冲光纤激光器,峰值功率超过200 W,重复频率3 MHz,脉冲宽度1~5 ns。文中阐述了以上几类高性能光纤激光器在激光雷达探测系统中的应用前景。     

高功率窄线宽光纤激光的研究进展与发展趋势

高功率窄线宽光纤激光器具有光束质量好、结构紧凑等优点,在相干合成、光谱合成以及非线性频率变换等领域具有广泛的应用前景,基于窄线宽光纤激光相干合成、光谱合成的激光系统性能指标已经超越单束激光的最高性能,基于窄线宽光纤激光非线性频率变换的激光也实现了同类波段激光的最高性能。分析窄线宽光纤激光功率提升同时保持光束质量过程中产生的物理机制和面临的技术挑战,详细介绍学校课题组在高功率窄线宽光纤激光方面取得的代表性成果,特别是高光束质量的7 kW级非线偏振窄线宽激光和5 kW级线偏振窄线宽激光,不仅是同类激光的最高功率值,也逼近了同等条件下非窄线宽光纤激光的功率极限。根据近年来理论研究和技术攻关结果,结合国内外研究现状,对高功率窄线宽光纤激光未来几个发展趋势进行预判。