A low-threshold efficient KTA OPO by a fiber-coupled diode-end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser

A low-threshold efficient high-repetition-rate eye-safe optical parametric oscillator(OPO) is presented.The OPO is based on an x-cut non-critically phase-matched(NCPM) KTA intra-cavity pumped by an acousto-optically(A-O) Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser.At 10 kHz,the lowest threshold of 0.75 W and the signal power of 0.6 W are got,corresponding to the single pulse energy of 60 μJ and the peak power of 20 kW.Tuning the frequency,the maximum output power at 1536 nm is 1.03 W at 30 kHz with an optical-to-optical conve...     

稳定腔偏振抽取单横模Nd:YAG激光器

将振荡与放大光束分离,使其分别抽取工作物质不同部位的贮能,可以获得较高功率和效率,也降低了对工作物质光学均匀性的要求。     

波长锁定878.6 nm LD调制泵浦Nd: YVO4自拉曼激光器

报道了一款基于调制共振泵浦技术的Nd:YVO₄自拉曼激光器。针对全固态自拉曼激光器中热效应严重导致的激光器输出功率及光光效率普遍偏低的问题,合理地将共振泵浦技术和调制泵浦技术相结合,实现了激光器的有效热管控,缓解了激光器的热效应,提高了泵浦上限,从而实现了激光器输出功率和光光效率的大幅提高。当泵浦源的调制频率为10 kHz、占空比为40%、平均泵浦功率为30 W、声光Q开关的调制频率为100 kHz时,获得了最大平均功率为8.57 W的1176 nm斯托克斯光输出,相应光光转换效率28.6%。相较于相同泵浦功率的连续泵浦机制下的实验结果,斯托克斯光平均输出功率提高了42%,光光效率提高了8.5%。实验结果表明:共振泵浦和调制泵浦技术相结合的方式可以有效缓解热效应,提高泵浦功率上限,从而提高自拉曼激光器的输出功率和光光效率。     

Nd:YVO4自锁模皮秒激光器

设计并研究了Nd:YVO4自锁模皮秒激光器,探究了激光器的最佳锁模条件。观察并分析了自锁模皮秒激光器准周期锁模、倍周期锁模状态,研究并测量了结构紧凑的直腔自锁模激光器的输出特性。谐振腔为凹平直腔,Nd:YVO4晶体作为激光增益介质和克尔介质,在未加其他锁模元件的情况下,实现了1 064 nm高效率连续锁模脉冲激光输出。晶体距输入镜16 mm、腔长为90 mm时,对1 064 nm透过率分别为10%、20%、30%和50%的四种输出镜下激光器的输出特性进行了对比分析。对激光器进行优化设计,输出镜透过率为10%,泵浦功率为8 W时,激光器输出功率为2.76 W,斜效率高达43.2%,锁模脉冲重复频率为1.43 GHz,激光器实现了高效、稳定的连续锁模。     

1.3414μm TEM00 Nd:YAP连续激光器的稳定性

本文分析研究了1.3414μmNd:YAP激光器的输出波动,认为谐振腔的增益、损耗和振荡条件的变化是激光输出波动的原因。基于此,本文探索出抑制不同频率的输出波动的技术,获得了宽频带内无尖峰、稳定度高于0.875%的单横模激光输出。     

77 GHz soliton modelocked Nd:YVO4 laser

An Nd:YVO₄ laser which was passively modelocked at the very high repetition rate of ~77 GHz, using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM), is demonstrated. The soliton-like pulses are well separated in time and their duration is 2.7 ps. The required negative dispersion is introduced by a GTI-like structure, which is formed by the gain medium and the SESAM     

High power, CW single-frequency, TEM00,diode-laser-pumped Nd:YAG laser

255 mW of 1.06 μm, CW, single-longitudinal-mode, TEM₀₀ output has been obtained by end-pumping a twisted-mode cavity Nd:YAG laser with a 1 W diode laser. The key elements of the laser are two λ/4 waveplates (zero-order) placed at both ends of the laser crystal (Nd:YAG, φ3×8 mm). The fast axes of the waveplates are rotated by 90° with respect to each other and rotated by 45° with respect to an intercavity Brewster polariser. In addition, one of the waveplates acts as a resonator and mirror and input coupler for the pump radiation     

1.35 GHz线性调频Nd:YVO4激光器

报道了808 nm连续半导体泵浦全固态Nd:YVO4线性调频激光器实验研究。利用优化谐振腔长度、腔内插入倾斜标准具,采用温度控制、机械减震和隔绝外部环境等稳频操作,实现了稳定的1 064 nm单频激光输出,最大输出功率140 mW。利用法柏干涉仪观察单频输出,并利用刀口法测量得到的基模高斯光束质量M2为1.05。在谐振腔内插入RTP电光晶体并连接外部高压电源,通过线性电光效应改变谐振腔长度以及改变标准具倾斜角度避免腔长调节过程中的模式跳频,实现了1.35 GHz的稳定线性调频激光输出。编程控制高压电源给RTP晶体施加幅值为2 200 V的锯齿波形电压,实现了频率20 Hz,平均输出功率为85 mW周期性的调频信号输出。     

激光二极管抽运Nd∶YVO4/YVO4复合晶体激光器

在高功率激光二极管(LD)抽运的情况下,对比分析了Nd∶YVO4/YVO4复合晶体和Nd∶YVO4单一晶体的激光特性。实验证明,复合晶体能够有效地降低晶体内的温度梯度,减小由端面变形带来的热透镜效应,获得比单一晶体高出许多的输出功率。采用Z型折叠腔,研究了Nd∶YVO4/YVO4复合晶体KTP倍频特性,当抽运功率为17W时,获得了6.23W的绿光输出,抽运光到绿光的转换效率高达37%。     

Oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser pumped Nd:YVO4 microchip lasers

In this letter, we demonstrate an experimental study of using a large area oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) to pump a Nd:YVO₄ microchip laser. The maximum output power of 1.2 mW in TEM₀₀ mode is obtained with a pump power of 8.2 mW. Experimental results show that the complex transverse modal behavior of VCSELs in the higher injection current may cause an impediment of power scaling     

基于Nd∶YVO4/Nd∶YLF组合晶体的双波长激光器研究

设计了基于Nd:YVO₄/Nd:YLF组合晶体的双波长(1047 nm和1064 nm)激光器。理论分析了 组合晶体双波长激 光器的速率方程,实验研究了在固定抽运条件下双波长激光器的温度输出特性。在实验研究 过程中设置抽运功率为600 mW,调节组合晶体热沉温度以1.0 ℃为间隔逐步增加,当热沉温度从 7.0 ℃增加至22.0 ℃时,激光器获得了频差 范围 为4.58 THz～4.63 THz、功率均衡度可调的双 波长信号 输出。在实验温度上升的范围内,频差最大值出现在8.0 ℃时,为 4.63 THz;频差最小值出现在21.0 ℃,为4.58 THz。 实验结果表明,频差随温度的变化稳定在4.60 THz附近。尤其的当 热沉温度处于17.8 ℃时,获得了功率均衡的、频差为4.58 THz的双波长信号输出,此时功 率为18.48 mW。这种超大频差的双波长激光器在提升功率之后可用于 外差拍频获取太赫兹波信号。     

Heat generation in Nd:YVO4 with and without laser action

We present quantitative interferometric measurements of thermal lensing in a diode-pumped Nd:YVO₄ crystal with and without laser action. The thermal loading increased by two times when laser action was inhibited. The thermal loading was strongly dependent on upper laser-level loss mechanisms (e.g. nonradiative decay, quenching, and Auger recombination)     

亚纳秒脉宽半导体泵浦电光调Q Nd:YVO4激光器

报道了一种利用半导体端面泵浦Nd:YVO4晶体并采用电光调Q的短腔激光器。通过理论分析和实验研究,确定了激光器的结构和参数,并证明使用电光调Q技术可以实现亚纳秒脉宽激光输出。在腔长20mm、重复频率为1～100Hz的范围内,获得脉宽小于600ps、单脉冲能量大于0.42mJ以及光束质量M2为1.9的100Hz激光输出,不稳定度小于±3%。     

TEM00模转换成TEM10模的二元光学元件衍射效果一维数值模拟

在用二元光学原理将氦氖高斯基模光束转换成TEM10模的一维设计基础上,模拟计算了距离的变化对衍射效果的影响.计算结果显示在距离偏离设计值±1.5nnm时,模拟光强值与预期光强值的相对平均误差小于1.8%,与设计结果基本相同.     

大功率激光二极管端面抽运的Nd：YVO4激光器

报道了利用掺杂浓度为0．3at．-％，通光长度为10mm的Nd：YVO4晶体作为增益介质，带光纤耦合的激光二极管端面抽运的Nd：YVO4激光器。在抽运功率为27．365W时，获得了14．85W的TEM00模输出，光-光转换效率为60．49％，斜率效率达64．5％。在上述基础上对晶体的掺杂浓度和晶体长度对激光器性能的影响进行了分析。     

A 3.63 W Nd：YVO4 orange-yellow laser with intracavity sum-frequency mixing

A design of laser-diode array (LDA) end-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser that generates simultaneously wavelengths of 1064 nm and 1342 nm is presented, and by using type-I critical phase matching (CPM) of BiB3O6, 593.5 nm continuous-wave (CW) laser is obtained with intracavity sum-frequency mixing. The maximum laser output power can reach 3.63 W with the pump power of 27.5 W. The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is up to 13.2%, which is the highest value at 593.5 nm by the intracavity sum-frequency ...     

Phase-noise-driven instability in a single-mode microchip Nd:YVO4 laser with feedback

We report the instability behaviors of a single-mode microchip solid-state laser subjected to external feedback. Two kinds of instabilities, random chaotic burst generations and random sinusoidal burst generations, were observed experimentally in an LD-pumped microchip Nd:YVO₄ single-mode solid-state laser with fiber feedback. These results are totally different form those observed in laser diodes with delay feedback systems, which have been widely studied in the last decades. The main features were reproduced numerically by utilizing the Lang-Kobayashi equations with phase noise, indicating phase-noise-driven dynamic instabilities     

一种获得1.3188μm单一谱线Nd:YAGTEM00模激光的新方法

提出了一种获得1.3188μm单一谱线Nd:YAGTEM00模激光的新方法,通过实验验证,取得了满意的效果.     

全固化环形单频Nd:YVO4可调谐激光器

分析了Nd:YVO4激光晶体两平-平通光面自身的标准具效应对单频激光器调谐特性的影响.采用一通光面切成1°劈形的Nd:YVO4晶体来消除自身的标准具效应,通过调节插入谐振腔内的标准具,使半导体激光器(LD)抽运Nd:YVO4单频激光器的最大可调谐范围达到约100 GHz.     

基于Nd:YVO4/PPMgOLN的532nm紧凑型阵列激光器

为更适用于批量生产激光投影仪,需要一种具有结构紧凑、性能稳定与低成本等特点的绿色激光器作为绿光光源。采用光胶合的Nd:YVO4/PPMgOLN晶体棒作为增益介质和倍频晶体,结合一种新型焊接封装工艺,最终得到了一种紧凑型微片阵列激光器。该激光器3个激光光束共得到了223.7 mW的功率输出,每个激光光束都有良好的光斑分布和稳定性,且激光器包含两个内置TEC在内具有47 mm35 mm25 mm的紧凑尺寸。激光器连续工作2.5 h波动小于2.5%。各项性能可以充分满足激光投影仪绿光光源的要求,并便于低成本批量生产与后期维护。