110-pJ and 410-fs pulse at 10 GHz generated by single-stage external fiber compression of optically injection-mode-locked semiconductor optical amplifier fiber laser

We demonstrate the high-power amplification and single-stage fiber-based pulse compression of a traveling-wave semiconductor optical amplifier (TWSOA) fiber ring laser (SOAFL), which is optically mode-locked by backward injecting the TWSOA with a dark-optical-comb at repetition frequency of 10 GHz. A negatively chirped SOAFL pulsewidth of 5.4 ps is compensated and shortened to 3.9 ps by a 75-m-long dispersion compensating fiber. With a single-stage pulse compression in a single-mode-fiber spool, the SOAFL pulses with input average power of 1.7 W can further be compressed to a pulsewidth of 410 fs, corresponding to a pulse compressing ratio of nearly ten. The maximum average output power of the amplified SOAFL pulse is up to 1.1 W, corresponding to the peak power and pulse energy of >0.27 kW and 110 pJ, respectively.     

LD单端泵浦Nd:GdVO4声光调Ｑ高重频窄脉宽激光器

激光二极管（LD）泵浦的Q调制高频率、窄脉宽、高峰值功率的固体激光器在激光雷达、激光加工等领域日益得到广泛的应用，而更高调制频率的固体激光器在将来会更受青睐。分析了泵浦功率和输出透过率两个因素在10~100 kHz调制频率下对脉宽的影响程度。研制了LD单端泵浦Nd:GdVO4声光调Q 激光器，实现了重频100 kHz下窄脉宽激光输出。在重频为80 kHz时，获得脉宽17.7 ns，平均输出功率3.49 W，峰值功率2.46 kW和在重复频率为100 kHz时，获得脉宽19.6 ns，平均输出功率3.52 W，峰值功率1.79 kW的效果。     

Ultrashort Pulses From a Mode-Locked Diode-Oscillator Yb-Fiber-Amplifier System

Ultrashort optical pulses are generated using a hybrid master oscillator power amplifier source. Pulses 2.2 ps in duration generated by a two-contact, bent-waveguide passively mode-locked semiconductor laser are amplified in a ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier to an average power of 0.8 W. External pulse compression yields durations as low as 765 fs with peak powers as high as 0.9kW. Amplification of the harmonically mode-locked diode output has also been demonstrated at the eighth harmonic     

Picosecond and femtosecond pulse generation in a regenerativelymode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

The authors have produced transform-limited pulses ranging from 100 ps to 40 fs duration from a Ti:sapphire laser. Output powers in excess of 1 W and peak powers of 0.5 MW have been observed. They describe the technique of regenerative mode locking and present evidence that a transient with a peak power of more than 10 kW is required to initiate mode locking. The role of group velocity dispersion is highlighted and a value of -750 fs² is measured for the group delay dispersion in an operating laser. The authors describe the limits on both the power and pulsewidth obtainable from this laser and present pulse compression experiments which produce 17 fs pulses with 70 mW of average power     

High pak power femtosecond pulses from modelocked semiconductor laser in external cavity

The generation of high peak power femtosecond pulses from an all semiconductor laser system is demonstrated. The system is based on a passively modelocked two-section laser diode in an external cavity, a tapered amplifier and a compact external pulse compressor. Pulse durations are achieved below 600 fs with an average optical power above 500 mW at a repetition rate of 330 MHz. This corresponds to a peak power of 2.5 kW, which is the highest value reported for an all semiconductor ultrafast laser system so far.     

小型化高重频窄脉冲声光Q开关DPL

介绍了小型化高重频声光Q开关DPL研制过程中的一些实验进展和相关产品样机。实验中，通过参数的优化选择，在激光二极管的泵浦峰值功率5 W，重复频率2 500 Hz下得到脉冲能量为81.5 μJ，脉冲宽度约为7.4 ns的激光输出，此时激光器的峰值功率为11 kW，光光转换效率14%，光束质量因子M2约为2.1。     

Efficient high-power diode-end-pumped TEM00 Nd:YVO4 laser

We demonstrate a compact and efficient diode-end-pumped TEM₀₀ laser with output power of 25.2 W for 52 W of incident pump power by use of a single YVO₄ crystal with a Nd concentration of 0.3 at.%. In Q-switched operation 21-W of average power at a pulse repetition rate of 100 kHz and ~1.1-mT pulse energy at a pulse repetition rate of 10 kHz were produced. At 10 kHz, the pulse width is around 10 ns and the peak power is higher than 100 kW     

全光纤结构的脉冲光纤放大器

结合双包层掺镱光纤(YDCF)和主振荡功率放大(MOPA)技术,利用熔融拉锥的光纤侧面耦合器,设计和实验研究了全光纤结构的脉冲光纤放大器。在不同重复频率时,通过放大脉冲激光的输出光谱,对输出脉冲激光中的剩余抽运光和受激拉曼散射光功率进行了修正;并研究了激光脉冲的时域特性,以及在脉冲放大过程中对输出激光脉冲宽度的压缩作用。获得输出放大脉冲激光的主要参数:峰值波长为1075 nm,脉冲宽度为18~300 ns,重复频率为5~20 kHz,峰值功率达9.87 kW,斜率效率达52.2%,光束质量M2=2.0。同时,制作完成了一台结构紧凑、全光纤结构的脉冲光纤放大器样机,其最大外形尺寸为370 mm×270 mm×90 mm。     

Numerical study on a frequency-tunable actively mode-locked fiber laser

We have numerically presented an actively mode-locked fiber laser with tunable repetition rate based on phase modulator. By finely optimizing intra-cavity parameters, the ultrashort pulses with tunable repetitive frequency at giga hertz level can be easily generated due to the balance between dispersion and nonlinearity in the fiber laser cavity. When the pulse frequency is changed from 1.0 GHz to 4.2 GHz, the spectral width increases from ~15.65 nm to ~27.25 nm. In addition, the corresponding pulse duration decreases from ~81.59 ps to ~31.57 ps. Moreover, these output pulses with giga hertz repetitive rates and the picosecond widths can be further compressed by using the reasonable dispersion medium. For the pulse regime with repetition frequency at giga hertz level, the obtained smallest pulse duration is about ~62 fs based on chirp pulse compression. We hope that these simulation results can promote further research and application in the ultrashort pulse lasers with high repetition rate.     

人眼安全高重频窄脉宽单模全光纤激光器特性研究

介绍了基于主振荡功率放大结构的人眼安全全光纤激光器.首先对比了电光调制及直接调制产生的种子激光在百kHz重复频率、纳秒级脉冲宽度的激光放大器中优缺点,综合系统需求选择直接调制方式;之后对窄脉冲单模放大中出现的脉冲分裂现象进行了研究,选用10 m纤芯的双包层铒镱共掺光纤,仅通过两级放大即获得了1 550 nm,重复频率为200 kHz,脉冲宽度为4.07 ns,峰值功率为1.02 kW的单模激光输出.具有结构紧凑、稳定可靠的特点,可用于三维视频激光雷达.     

Er-Yb femtosecond ring fiber oscillator with 1.1-W average power and GHz repetition rates

We report an all-fiber passively mode-locked femtosecond laser oscillator based on the heavily doped Er-Yb phosphate-glass active fiber. Only 20 cm of the gain fiber is sufficient to produce as much as 1.1 W of average output power at 1.5 /spl mu/m directly from the oscillator. The laser can be harmonically mode-locked at repetition rates ranging from 1.7 to 7.2 GHz by adjusting the polarization bias in the cavity. The pulsewidth varies from 300 to 570 fs at the lowest and the highest repetition rate, respectively, and the maximum peak pulse power exceeds 1 kW.     

Compression des impulsions lumineuses par automodulation de phase dans un guide unimodal

Pulses of 60 fs duration, 620 nm of central wave length, at a 10 Hz repetition rate are compressed to 13 fs in a fiber-grating compression experiment. Some numerical results describing the dynamical pulse and spectrum evolution are presented, and used to estimate the peak power coupled in the fiber.     

激光二极管双端抽运声光调Q高重复频率Nd:GdVO4激光器

激光二极管(LD)抽运的固体激光器(DPSSL)的调Q器件是获得高重复频率、高峰值功率的有效手段之一,随着激光雷达、激光加工业的发展,要求调Q器件向着更高重复频率的方向发展。Nd∶GdVO4以其优异的物理和激光特性,使得它在激光二极管端面抽运固体激光器的声-光(A-O)调Q器件中,即使在很高的调制重复频率下,仍可获得窄脉宽、高峰值功率的脉冲激光输出。理论分析了影响脉冲激光的输出能量和脉宽大小的决定因素,研究了脉宽、平均输出功率及峰值功率随调Q重复频率的变化关系。利用双激光二极管双端抽运Nd∶GdVO4晶体棒,实现了声-光调Q高重复频率窄脉宽1063 nm激光输出。在晶体入射端面总抽运功率约43 W条件下,当重复频率f=10 kHz时,获得脉宽Δt=10.2 ns,单脉冲能量E=0.95 mJ,峰值功率PM=93.1 kW的输出;在重复频率f=100 kHz时,获得Δt=28.1 ns,E=0.10 mJ,PM=3.6 kW的结果。     

高平均功率高重复率固态双Nd:YVO4基模激光器

报道了采用国产大功率光纤束模块双端泵浦双Nd：YVO4激光晶体和声光调Q技术，实现了高平均功率、高重复频率的1064nm激光输出。通过降低Nd：YVO4激光晶体的掺杂浓度，采用双端泵浦双晶体，在晶体热效应允许的范围内最大限度地利用了泵浦光的能量，通过腔内插入声光调Q器件，在晶体注入总功率为50W的情况下，得到了24W的TEM00模连续波1064nm激光输出。最高重复频率为50kHz时，平均输出功率为22．9W，脉冲宽度为38ns，相应的光-光转换效率为45．8％；在重复频率为10kHz时，具有最大单脉冲能量1．55mJ，相应的脉冲宽度为15ns，峰值功率达到了103kW。     

Design of a multi-petawatt optical parametric chirped pulseamplifier for the iodine laser ASTERIX IV

A theoretical design is presented for the generation of peak powers up to ~5 PW and focused intensities higher than 10²³ Wcm^-2 with pulse duration ~20 fs using an optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier (OPCPA) pumped by the high-power iodine laser Asterix IV. These values represent an improvement to the existing Asterix laser by a factor of ~1000 and at least LOO 000 for the output peak power and focused intensity, respectively. The OPCPA system consists of two LBO preamplifiers and a KDP power amplifier and is pumped by the laser third-harmonic output (438 nm, 500 ps, 500 J). Numerical simulations show that saturation within the OPCPA can be effectively used to counteract the bandwidth narrowing effects brought about by the temporal variation of the pump pulse intensity. The results demonstrate that the OPCPA represents a powerful technique for the generation of ultrahigh powers with iodine lasers at a level currently not achievable with any other approach, and proves that the iodine system is particularly suitable as an OPCPA pump source     

1030nm高重复频率纳秒脉冲全光纤放大器

采用脉冲调制的单模带尾纤输出的半导体激光器作为种子源,以掺镱光纤为增益介质,采用主振荡功率放大(MOPA)结构,实现了1030nm全光纤脉冲激光放大。脉冲重复频率在50～100kHz范围内可调,在重复频率50kHz时,实现了脉冲宽度为6.53ns,峰值功率为16.08kW的脉冲输出,相应的斜率效率为69%,输出激光的中心波长在1029.49nm。实验还研究了不同重复频率下输出激光脉冲的时域特性。该激光器的输出波长在激光雷达探测器的光谱响应范围内,可作为激光雷达发射光源。     

LD side-pumped intracavity frequency-doubled high Nd：YAG green laser based on acousto-optic Q-switch

A highly efficient and high power green laser generated by intracavity frequency doubling of a diode-sidepumped Q-switched Nd：YAG laser has been demonstrated. In the simple L-shaped cavity geometry,the maximum green output power of 28.5 W was obtained with a pulse width of 95 ns at a pulse repetition rate of 10 kHz by using a LBO crystal for frequency doubling,corresponding to a conversion efficiency of 11% from diode pump power to pulse green power. At a pulse repetition rate of 1 kHz,6.9 mJ of pulse energy,25 ns of pulse duration and 276 kW of peak power were obtained.     

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     

Diode-Side-Pumped Acoustooptic $Q$ -switched 1319-nm Nd:YAG Laser

In this paper, a diode-side-pumped acoustooptic Q-switched 1319-nm Nd:YAG laser is described. The output characteristics under the different repetition rates and output couplers have been studied. With a pumping power of 555 W, the average output power decreases from 94 W at 50 kHz to 71 W (slope efficiency 25.2%, optical conversion efficiency 12.8%) at 5 kHz. The highest peak power is up to 95 kW with the pulse duration of 150 ns at the repetition rate of 5 kHz.     

Analysis and optimization of Q-switched operation of a Tm/sup 3+/-doped silica fiber laser operating at 2 /spl mu/m

Analysis and operation of a Q-switched Tm/sup 3+/-doped silica fiber laser in the wavelength region of 2 /spl mu/m is described when pumped with a Nd:YAG laser operating at 1.319 /spl mu/m. A large core of 17-/spl mu/m diameter was used to increase the laser gain volume, allowing high pump-power absorption and an output of high pulse energy and peak power. An acoustooptic modulator was used as Q-switching element and operated at repetition rates up to 30 kHz. A maximum peak output power of greater than 4 kW and a pulse duration at full-width at half-maximum of 150 ns has been obtained. This is the first report of high peak-power operation of the thulium-doped silica fiber laser.