Design and operation of a 150 W near diffraction-limited laseramplifier with SBS wavefront correction

The design and operation of a Nd:glass regenerative amplifier using a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) phase conjugate mirror is presented. The system can be operated at 25-30 J per pulse with a pulse width of 14 ns and a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 6 Hz. This results in an average output power of >150 W with a peak power of 2 GW. The experimentally measured divergence of the amplifier output is 1.25× the diffraction limit and it can be frequency doubled with >80% efficiency. The detailed considerations required for this specific amplifier design are discussed as well as how these considerations apply to the design of high average power, high beam quality laser systems in general     

激光二极管抽运的主振荡级与功率放大器结构Nd∶YVO4激光器

为了实现固体激光器高功率、高光束质量的输出,设计了一种激光二极管(LD)阵列抽运的主振荡级与功率放大器(MOPA)结构的Nd∶YVO4激光器。该激光器的振荡级采用平-平谐振腔结构,并使用棱镜组对激光二极管阵列的抽运光整形,消除了激光二极管阵列抽运光不对称对振荡器输出光束质量的影响,在连续工作条件下获得了6.1 W的激光输出,其光束质量M2因子为M2x=1.14,M2y=1.13,光-光转换效率为25.6%。放大级采用具有近共焦、非稳腔特点的折叠光路结构,使振荡级激光光束10次通过放大级晶体,并且有效地抑制了放大自发辐射(ASE)和寄生振荡。在振荡级以6.1 W注入放大器时,得到最大输出功率26.8 W,此时放大器提取效率为29.1%,输出光束质量M2因子为M2x=2.08,M2y=1.92。     

高脉冲稳定性的100kHz皮秒再生放大器

报道了一种具有高脉冲稳定性的100kHz皮秒脉冲再生放大装置。该放大装置采用激光二极管(LD)端面抽运的Nd:YVO4晶体作为增益介质,RTP晶体作为电光晶体。再生腔的腔型为对称W型,总长1.8m。分析了皮秒脉冲在再生放大腔中往返次数和再生腔损耗对放大脉冲倍周期分叉现象以及稳定放大时输出功率的影响。抽运功率为30W时,通过选取最优的往返次数获得了功率为5.3W的高脉冲稳定性的再生输出,脉冲稳定性均方根(RMS)值小于2%。放大后皮秒脉冲脉宽为13.78ps,脉冲峰值功率3.84MW,再生腔输出的光束质量因子M2≤1.5。     

采用振荡-放大结构的声光调Q Nd:YAG激光器及光纤传输聚焦系统

研究了一种氪灯抽运的双Nd:YAG棒和声光调制器构成一级振荡加一级放大的声光调QNd:YAG激光器.动态激光平均输出功率最大达到169W,在重复频率1kHz时,测得脉宽70ns,峰值功率达到594kW.用芯径0.6mm的全石英光纤传输激光,并设计了一套聚焦光学系统,实现了大幅面的激光雕刻工作.     

High average and high peak brightness slab laser

A high average and high peak brightness Nd:YAG MOPA laser system composed of a laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG master oscillator, flash-lamp-pumped slab power amplifiers and a phase conjugated mirror was developed. The system demonstrates an average output power of 235 W at a repetition rate of 320 Hz and a peak power of 30 MW at a pulse duration of 24 ns with M²=1.5. Both an average brightness of 7×10⁹ W/cm²·sr and a peak brightness of 1×10¹⁵ W/cm2·sr are achieved simultaneously. The system design rules that we confirmed suggest that by replacing lamp pumping in the amplifier with laser-diode pumping, an average output power of ~1 kW can be obtained at ~1 kHz with a higher average brightness of ~3×10¹⁰ W/cm²·sr and a higher peak brightness of ~3×10¹⁵ W/cm²·sr     

激光二极管千赫兹级Nd:YVO4皮秒脉冲激光再生放大器

采用光纤耦合激光二极管端面抽运Nd:YVO4激光晶体,抽运光平均功率为20W,脉冲宽度为100μs,获得了重复频率为1 kHz、平均功率为1.5 W的再生皮秒脉冲激光输出,脉冲宽度约为15 ps,两个方向上的光束质量因子均小于1.4。     

高重复频率、窄脉宽全固态光纤放大器种子源

高重复频率、窄脉宽的全固态激光器种子源级联光纤放大器是获得高功率脉冲激光输出的有效手段.短上能态寿命的Nd:YVO4晶体在连续抽运、高重复频率Q开关工作时容易得到接近连续性能的平均输出功率.理论分析了声光(AO)调Q器件中影响输出能量和脉宽大小的主要因素,优化配置了腔型参数.利用激光二极管(LD)光纤耦合模块端面抽运Nd:YVO4晶体,实现了声-光调Q重复频率100 kHz以上,脉宽20 ns以下,波长1064 nm的激光输出.在抽运功率5.7 W时,得到了脉宽15.3 ns,重复频率150 kHz的种子光输出,在级联单级光纤放大器后,得到了20 W的输出.     

160 W激光二极管抽运电光调Q主振荡功率放大器绿光激光器

介绍了激光二极管抽运的高重复频率、大能量绿光固体激光器研制成果。激光器采用电一光调Q，主振荡功率放大器（MOPA）结构。根据放大器的设计要求，研制了抽运功率达12kW，占空比为15％的激光二极管侧抽运Nd：YAG棒状激光模块。在重复频率500Hz，脉冲宽度15ns条件下，实现了单脉冲能量1．27J的1064nm输出，光束质量β小于2．5。采用Ⅱ类相位匹配KTP晶体外腔倍频，在基频能量1J，重复频率400Hz，抽运功率密度67MW／cm^2时，获得大于405mJ的绿光输出（平均功率达160W），倍频效率约为40％，绿光光束质量β〈5。     

高重频高峰值功率窄线宽激光放大器

高重复频率、高峰值功率、窄线宽的激光在激光雷达领域具有重要的应用价值。在对高重频窄线宽激光进行放大时,为了同时实现高放大倍率与高光束质量激光输出,在高重频、窄线宽被动调Q激光器作为种子源的前提下,设计了利用888 nm半导体激光端面泵浦Nd:YVO4块状晶体实现高增益的一级放大,808 nm半导体激光侧面泵浦Nd:YVO4板条晶体实现低热透镜效应的二级放大的方案。在重复频率10 kHz时,获得了峰值功率5 MW,线宽154 pm,脉冲宽度0.6 ns,平均功率31.5 W,光束质量M2为1.98的激光输出。从而验证了将高放大倍率与高光束质量分别控制的放大器设计思路。     

百瓦级1 030 nm光纤-固体混合放大激光器

光纤-固体混合放大技术能够将光纤激光器和固体放大器的优势结合,获得结构紧凑、成本低廉的高功率超短脉冲激光。因此,实验设计了基于掺镱光纤-固体混合放大技术的高平均功率超短脉冲激光器。该激光器主要由全光纤结构激光器和两级固体放大器组成,第一级为基于Yb: YAG单晶光纤的固体放大器,第二级为基于无侧面抛光的棒状Yb: YAG晶体的主放大器。超短脉冲全光纤前端平均输出功率为6.5 W,重复频率52.9 MHz,脉冲宽度47.5 ps。第一级单晶光纤放大器采用单通放大形式,在反向泵浦功率182 W时获得40 W的平均功率。第二级固体放大器同样为单通放大,在反向泵浦功率307 W时获得平均功率122.9 W的超短脉冲激光输出,滤除热退偏激光后获得了107.3 W的线偏振超短脉冲激光,对应斜效率为26.1%。此时测得脉冲宽度为12.1 ps,中心波长为1 030.6 nm,光谱宽度为2.4 nm。在最大输出功率107.3 W时,测得水平和垂直方向的光束质量因子M_x2=1.45,M_y2=1.20。     

High-power Nd-doped fiber amplifier for coherent intersatellitelinks

Intersatellite optical communication links require laser beams of at least 1 W of power modulated at gigahertz frequencies. They can be delivered by a master oscillator power amplifier system which consists of a stable single-frequency Nd:YAG laser, a high-speed phase modulator, and an optical amplifier. To allow coherent detection, the polarization state must be stable and controllable at the amplifier output and the phase noise must be kept low. We report here the design and the experimental results of a diode laser-pumped double clad Nd-doped fiber amplifier with polarization control, 30-dB gain, and about 1.3 W of output power     

Double-pass copper vapor laser master-oscillator power-amplifier systems: generation of flat-top focused beams for fiber coupling and percussion drilling

In this paper, a compact master-oscillator power-amplifier laser system incorporating telescopic beam expansion in a high-gain double-pass amplifier is presented. A miniature (0.5 W) master-oscillator copper vapor laser is used to efficiently extract over 37 W of high-beam-quality (full transverse coherence) output power from a kinetically enhanced nominally 35-W copper vapor laser at 12-kHz pulse repetition frequency. By configuring the oscillator for low coherence output and using a multimode optical fiber between the oscillator and the double-pass amplifier, a high-power (34 W) low-divergence output beam having a well-defined flat-top far-field beam profile was also produced. The flat-top farfield beam profile arises from control of the spatial coherence of a flat-top near-field beam, rather than the usual techniques for producing flattened Gaussian beams from coherent Gaussian beams. Use of the flat-top focused beam for high-speed percussion drilling of high quality 100-/spl mu/m diameter holes in metals was demonstrated, as well as high-power (34-W average power, 80-kW peak power) damage-free power transmission through 100-/spl mu/m core diameter step-index optical fibers.     

An 8.2 J phase-conjugate solid-state laser coherently combiningeight parallel amplifiers

We describe a phase-conjugate master oscillator-power amplifier configuration in which as many as eight parallel flashlamp-pumped Cr:Nd:GSGG amplifiers and four parallel CD*A frequency doubling crystals were coherently combined. Operating at a pulse repetition frequency of 1.25 Hz, we demonstrated an output energy of 8.2 J at 1 μm and 4.4 J at 530 nm for a 54% frequency-doubling efficiency. This effort represents the highest reported output energy achieved using coherent coupling via phase conjugation. In subsequent experiments at a pulse repetition frequency of 5 Hz, we produced ~22 W of 1.06 μm average power with a beam quality that was ~2.5 times diffraction-limited. The observed far-field intensity profile indicates that we achieved effective and consistent compensation of optical-path length differences among the multiple parallel amplifiers and frequency-doubling crystals     

百焦耳级受激布里渊散射相位共轭激光系统

研制了一套输出能量在100 J以上的大能量高功率钕玻璃激光系统。在设计中,对光路排布进行了优化,对系统放大增益进行了数值模拟,采用像传递技术和受激布里渊散射(SBS)相位共轭技术,提高了激光束的输出质量。Nd:YLF前端输出的单纵模脉冲激光经过两级双程放大和一级助推放大,获得了106 J的能量输出。针对在大口径高能高功率激光系统中应用受激布里渊散射相位共轭镜的要求,设计了一种新型的受激布里渊散射相位共轭镜结构,这种结构克服了传统独立双池的缺点,完全适用于高能高功率激光的双程放大结构。     

用于355nm紫外光源的腔外倍频全固态激光器

为保证高输出功率前提下获得高光束质量的1064和532 nm激光共向输出,实验中,首先采用主振荡功率放大器系统有效地控制基频光束质量,获得平均功率为70 W、重复频率为10 kHz、脉宽为60 ns和光束质量因子M2约为3.9的1064 nm基频激光;接着利用二级放大器,获得平均功率为182.9 W,脉宽为80 ns的...     

1047 nm laser diode master oscillator Nd:YLF power amplifier laser system

A master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser transmitter system at 1047 nm wavelength using a semiconductor laser diode and a diode pumped solid state (Nd:YLF) laser (DPSSL) amplifier is described. A small signal gain of 23 dB, a near diffraction limited beam, l Gbit/s modulation rates and >0.6 W average power are achieved. This MOPA laser has the advantage of amplifying the modulation signal from the laser diode master oscillator (MO) with no signal degradation.<>     

142 W高峰值功率窄线宽线偏振脉冲光纤激光器

报道了一种基于主振荡功率放大(MOPA)结构工作的全光纤窄线宽线偏振纳秒脉冲光纤激光器。脉冲种子源是由一个分布反馈直腔型(DFB)单频光纤激光器被光电调制器进行强度调制后产生的。为了抑制受激布里渊散射(SBS)效应,脉宽被调节为3 ns,并且种子源线宽被相位调制器展宽为2.9 GHz。经两级保偏掺Yb3+光纤放大器放大后,获得了平均功率142 W,重复频率1 MHz,脉冲宽度2.88 ns,峰值功率49.3 kW的脉冲激光输出。在最大输出功率时,激光光束质量因子M2约为1.15,偏振消光比(PER)大于15.4 dB。     

输出平均功率达200W的板状激光器

脉冲运转的“之”字形Nd:YAG板状激光器,在工作频率为50pps时,最高输出激光平均功率达230W。由于采用了“之”字形光路,使热畸变得到补偿,输出激光束的发散角得到改善,一般为3×4mrad。     

抑制高峰值功率皮秒激光放大系统Nd:YAG中的自聚焦效应

全固态皮秒放大器的平均输出功率易受到增益晶体中自聚焦效应的影响。通过引入补偿元件砷化镓（GaAs）片可以避免自聚焦效应造成的损伤，关于砷化镓的抑制机理对高峰值功率Nd:YAG晶体皮秒放大器系统的进行理论分析和实验研究。以公式计算得到了GaAs材料的非线性折射率系数，并由数值模拟给出了在抑制自聚焦的最佳效果下GaAs片厚度与Nd:YAG棒长度的关系。在入射皮秒激光束中心波长为1 064 nm、重复频率为1 kHz、峰值功率密度为12 GW/cm2的条件下，进行了不同厚度（200 m和550 m） GaAs片对抑制Nd:YAG棒自聚焦损伤的实验研究。通过优化GaAs片的厚度，该补偿方法在高峰值功率皮秒脉冲条件下，特别是对于Nd:YAG放大器显示出较高的效率。关键词:自聚焦效应；非线性折射率系数；光学损伤； B积分     

Passive mode locked diode-pumped Nd:GdYVO4 laser with a GaAs absor ber

A passively Q-switched mode-locked Nd:GdYVO4 laser is successfully demonstrated by using a piece of GaAs crystalgrown at low temperature as the passively saturated absorber and the output coupler. Fundamental properties of the Nd:GdYVO4 laser are investigated. The maximum average output power of 3.5 W is obtained by using plainsphere when theincident pumping power is 10 W, which corresponds to an optical-optical coversion efficiency of 35%. The thresholdpower for the Q-switching mode-locked is 1.2 W. The maximum average output power of 1.72 W is obtained by usingGaAs when the incident pumping power is 10 W, mode-locked pulse train with a repetition rate of -113 MHz is achieved.At the incident laser pumping power of 7 W, the modulation depth is 100%.